Lighting Out for the Territory (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: African Americans, History, Race, Authors or writers, Slavery or slaves, Literature, Popular culture, Conformity
. . . if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and ain’t agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.—Huck’s final words, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
“It is our nature to conform,” Mark Twain once wrote, “it is a force which not many can successfully resist.” That truth is evident in the modern marketplace, where hunger for conformity is imposed even on books....
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