![]() Twain himself was a passionate critic of American racism, and donated money to a number of civil rights organisations including the nascent NAACP, as well as ironically critiquing prejudice in both Huckleberry Finn and the later novel Puddn'head Wilson. "We may applaud Twain's ability as a prominent American literary realist to record the speech of a particular region during a specific historical era," Gribben added, "but abusive racial insults that bear distinct connotations of permanent inferiority nonetheless repulse modern-day readers." "As a result, with every passing decade this affront appears to gain rather than lose its impact." "The n-word possessed, then as now, demeaning implications more vile than almost any insult that can be applied to other racial groups," he said. Gribben said he had decided on the move because over decades of teaching Twain, and reading sections of the text aloud, he had found himself recoiling from uttering the racial slurs in the words of the young protagonists. It will have the effect, the publisher claims, of replacing "two hurtful epithets" in order to "counter the 'pre-emptive censorship' that Dr Gribben observes has caused these important works of literature to fall off curriculum lists worldwide." OL53908W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.78 Pages 286 Pdf_module_version 0.0.The new edition's Alabama-based publisher, NewSouth books, says the development is a "bold move compassionately advocated" by the book's editor, Twain scholar Dr Alan Gribben of Auburn University, Montgomery. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:11:40 Boxid IA15176 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Clayton, DE Date-raw May 2006 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Rev. ![]()
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