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Title: Huckleberry Finn


1
Huckleberry Finn
  • Childrens Fiction
  • Outcast as Hero
  • Pastoral Escape vs sivilization
  • Huck and Jim

2
Childrens Literature
  • Juvenile fiction often inculcates moral teaching
  • American fiction as juvenile still a young
    nation whose literature reflects adolescence of
    the country
  • America as innocent
  • Idealism not reflected in the actual

3
Outcast as Hero
  • Hucks outcast status
  • Individualism vs. convention (Emerson)
  • Outcast challenges rule of law (All right then,
    Ill go to hell!)

4
Escape vs Civilization
  • Country vs. City
  • Pastoral vs. culture
  • Civilization is corrupt
  • Nature as the site of true freedom

5
Huck and Jim
  • Two outcasts together
  • Original buddy plot no sex plot
  • Portrait of equality?

6
Realism and Social Critique
  • Linguistic Detail
  • Social Realism
  • Descriptive Realism

7
Regionalism
  • No single United States
  • Post-Civil War South as victim
  • West Land of Promise
  • Northeast represents America as a whole
  • Rural vs. City / Agrarian vs. Industrialization

8
Huck Finn the End
  • Reconstruction 1865-1880
  • 13th Amendment No slavery in the U.S.
  • 14th Amendment All persons born in the U.S. are
    citizens
  • 15th Amendment Vote could not be denied American
    men on racial grounds

9
Reconstruction, continued
  • 14th amendment naturalization would produce a
    new class of anti-southern voters
  • New black vote would prevent white, pro-south
    politicians from winning office.

10
Rise of Jim Crow
  • Local laws intended to deny federal amendments
  • Grandfather Laws you can vote only if you can
    prove your grandfather did
  • Literacy Laws you can vote only if you can
    prove your own literacy
  • Poll Tax you must pay to vote

11
The Legacy of Reconstruction
  • Federal Amendments vs. Jim Crow which actually
    affected lives of black people?
  • Reconstruction a failure (recall duBois) blacks
    actually worse off after slavery than before
  • Emancipation and Enfranchisement a fiction,
    only a theory
  • Huck Finn written at the end of the
    Reconstruction period.
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