Was Huck black?: Mark Twain and African-American voices
Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American voices played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how African-American voices have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most art-less, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying" - satire in an African-American vein - when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well - but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought |
| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 219 - 247 |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 270 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0195082141 |
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| spelling | Fishkin, Shelley Fisher 1950- Verfasser (DE-588)1050750071 aut Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices Shelley Fisher Fishkin New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1993 XIV, 270 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Literaturverz. S. 219 - 247 Published in 1884, Huckberry Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelly Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American voices played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how African-American voices have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most art-less, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying" - satire in an African-American vein - when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well - but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought Twain, Mark <1835-1910> - Amis et relations Twain, Mark <1835-1910> - Personnages - Noirs américains Twain, Mark <1835-1910> / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark <1835-1910> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark <1835-1910> Characters African Americans Twain, Mark <1835-1910> Friends and associates Twain, Mark 1835-1910 (DE-588)118624822 gnd rswk-swf Twain, Mark 1835-1910 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (DE-588)4311319-9 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1800-1900 Engels gtt Letterkunde gtt Negers gtt Noirs américains - Biographies Noirs américains dans la littérature The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) gtt Écrivains américains - 19e siècle - Biographies Englisch Literatur Schwarze Schwarze. USA African Americans in literature African Americans Biography Authors, American 19th century Biography Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Schwarze Motiv (DE-588)4116434-9 gnd rswk-swf Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 gnd rswk-swf Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Twain, Mark 1835-1910 (DE-588)118624822 p Schwarze Motiv (DE-588)4116434-9 s DE-604 Twain, Mark 1835-1910 The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (DE-588)4311319-9 u USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 s Schwarze (DE-588)4116433-7 s 1\p DE-604 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices |
| title_auth | Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices |
| title_exact_search | Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices |
| title_full | Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
| title_fullStr | Was Huck black? Mark Twain and African-American voices Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
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| title_short | Was Huck black? |
| title_sort | was huck black mark twain and african american voices |
| title_sub | Mark Twain and African-American voices |
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