The Forbidden Word: The Symbol and Sign of Evil in American Literature, History, and Culture by James Henry Harris

The Forbidden Word: The Symbol and Sign of Evil in American Literature, History, and Culture

James Henry Harris

131 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

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Description: This book is about a Black man's reading of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures his emotional experience with Twain's use of the racial epithet "nigger" more than...

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