Mark Twain knew darn well what he was doing when he wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: he was pokin’ at a beehive.Īnd for more than one hundred years, the bees have obliged, swarming out with criticism of the tale of the friendship between a poor white boy, Huckleberry Finn, and an escaped slave, Jim.Īmidst today’s debate on the book - much of which focuses on the repeated use of a racial slur by virtually everyone in “Huckleberry Finn” - is Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Jocelyn Chadwick. (Staff Photo Justin Ide, Harvard News Office) Photographed inside the Harvard Coop, Thursday, September 21, 2000. Chadwick is a Twain scholar and stands in defense of his work as a historical perspective on language and race, and is opposed to banning his work becuase of racial language that today is unaccepted. Jocelyn Chadwick, professor at the Graduate School of Education, with a copy of the complete works of Mark Twain.
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