Say it, Jim: the morality of connection in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
| Publisher | West Chester University |
| Publication | College Literature |
| Subject | Education |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0093-3139 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2002-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Laurel Bollinger |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Mark Twain |
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The American literary tradition has often been defined by its moments of radical autonomy--Thoreau at his pond, Ishmael offering his apostrophe to "landlessness," Huck "light[ing] out for the Territory ahead of the rest" (Twain 1995,265). In fact, Twain's novel is often taught as the text that epitomizes this tradition, with Huck held up as its exemplar: a boy courageous enough to stand against the moral conventions of his society, to risk Hell itself rather than conform to the "sivilizing" process of communities he rejects. (1)
Yet such a focus belies an alternate strand in...
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