Big Jim and White Boy also vividly embraces some of the more complex historical details of the setting. Between John Brown and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri in the 1850s was a boiling point in ...

But it’s not the only reinterpretation of the Huck Finn mythos to come out in the past year. “Big Jim and the White Boy” is a graphic novel from writer David F. Walker and Capital Region ...

Local illustrator helps reimagine 'Huck Finn' tale through Jim's perspective Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" By Jim Shahen Jr ...

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel.

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

When Everett thought of writing Jim’s side of Huck Finn, he was surprised that no one had ever delivered that story before. The two fugitives are separated for a long section of Twain’s novel ...

In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.

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 ...

BOOK REVIEW In Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ Jim from ‘Huckleberry Finn’ moves out of the shadows and into full personhood Heir to Mark Twain’s satirical vision, Everett turns a boyhood ...

Forget Huck Finn. New novel tells us what Jim thought on the Mississippi . March 25, 2024 at 6:00 am . By . Angela Ajayi. Star Tribune. Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now.