Race in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Social Issues in Literature) - Softcover

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The Social Issues in Literature series is a gold mine for the high-school—or even college—student looking for an entry point into an analysis of a classic text. Reprinted articles are broken into three groups: those that focus on the author; those that focus on how the headline issue is exercised within the book itself; and those that expand that issue into contemporary settings. As there is so much existing material on Twain, Race in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is probably less essential, though still valuable in how it extends classic readings into the new millennium (one of the reprinted articles is by Barack Obama; another is called “Racism on the Campaign Trail”). Pictures are minimal, but movie stills are used when available. Readable and useful, these books will rescue paper writers everywhere. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus