Tom Sawyer Abroad
By Mark Twain.
Description
Huck is once again our naïve and unreliable narrator, and the increasingly grotesque presentation of Jim's character corresponds to the increasing distance that the young narrator puts between himself and the freedman. In the earlier novel, Twain explored the possibilities of an alliance between the slave and the poor white boy; in Tom Sawyer Abroad, the author exposes the complete breakdown of that alliance, using the degeneration of the blackface minstrel tradition as a trope for his social critique-an unequivocal condemnation of late nineteenth-century American race and class r...
ISBN(s)
0893757128, 9780893757120
