“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones ... Instead of being a book about slavery, the way "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a book about slavery, this is a book ...

dared to re-write “Huckleberry Finn” to focus upon Jim, rather than upon Huckleberry. In one sobering scene, Everett places Jim, or James, in a cabin where he teaches six black children ...

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones ... the way "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a book about slavery, this is a book about an American youth, about America ...

Everett’s version of Huckleberry Finn and the character of Jim is a 21st-century fictional ... but Uncle Tom and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the superstitious, simple minded, person who understands eating, ...

Huckleberry Finn, left, and Jim see a dead man in a scene ... Before his escape he runs classes in his cabin for his enslaved children to teach them how to speak “slave speak” – to speak ...

The man called Jim has always been the hero of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Mark Twain might have titled the book, often considered to be the Great American Novel, after the white boy ...

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest works of literature—and one of its most problematic. Contemporary writer Percival Everett provides a new path into ...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is all boy. Eddie Hodges Huck isn't. Therein lurks the basic reason this production of the Twain classic is not all it could, and should, be. Mark Twain’s ...

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" enjoys acclaim as the "Great American Novel," its title character a uniquely beloved figure in our national heritage. Author Mark Twain's riverfront Missouri ...

That's underlined by yet another meaning connecting the phrase to the fictional character Huckleberry Finn, best friend of ...