The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn

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Abolitionists, 67, 70, 75, 92, 98, 117 Abrahams, Roger, 48 Adventures in American Literature, 135 African Americans:and denial of history , 26-27, 58, 63, 133; in fiction, xiv-xv, xvi, 25, 46, 50, 57, 58, 61, 64, 65, 93-94; freeborn and freedmen , 39-40, 131; history of, xxii-xxiii, 3, 26-27, 63, 131-32; language of, 50; literature of, xiv-xv, 25, 46, 50, 57, 58, 61, 63-64,93-94, 135, 141n.2;as readers, 3-4, 8-9, 26, 36, 55,61, 63-64,71-72,97,98,102,118 Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 61 American Colonization Society, 84 Anglo-African, The, xxi Antistrephon, 55 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 91 Aunt Sally, 33, 115-17, 130, 131 Bacon, Francis, 73 Baker, Houston, 50 Bakhtin, M. M., 41-42 Banning, ofAHF. SeeCensorship Baseball Club of the First Baptist Church, 104 Beaver, Harold, 123-24 Beecher, Henry Ward, 67 Bell, Bernard,40, 116, 122 Bellamy, Gladys Carmen, 65-66 Beloved (Morrison), 11-12, 25, 91 Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 14, 103-04 Black Empire (Schuyler), 25, 140n.l Black No More (Schuyler),25, 61, 140n.l Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 63 Boggs, 91, 101 Booth, Wayne C., 5-6,122 "Brooklyn Affair," 75, 92-93 Brooks, Van Wyck, 4 Brown, Henry "Box," 16, 78, 92 Brown, William Wells, xxii, 57 Bruce, Philip, 79 Budd, LouisJ., 67 Burke, Kenneth, 45, 49, 138n.3 Cairo, 10, 66-67, 69-70, 71, 75, 79, 82, 124 Carroll, Lewis, 61 Censorship, xii, xiii, xxi,30-31, 139n.9 Cervantes, Miguel, 61 Characters, as types, 33-34 Charity (slave woman),75, 92-93 Chesnutt, Charles, xxii Index 154 Index Clay, Hemy, 84 Colonel Sherburn, 34, 91, 101, 103, 104, 125, 126 Color Purple, The (Walker), 25, 67-68 Colored American, The, xxi, 70 Compromise of 1850, 84, 142n.7 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A (Twain), 85 Contending Forces, A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Hopkins), 57, 58, 79 Cooper, AnnaJulia, xv, xxii, 57, 61, 62, 64-65, 66 Cord, Maryanne, 17 Cox,James, 5 Crafts family, 92 Critical reception, xiii, 4-8 Critics, of AHF, xi-xii, xvi, 4-5, 32, 36,40,41,55,63-64,65,73,80, 86,97,102-03,107,116,121, 122, 123, 126-27, 128, 132-33, 137n.3, 137n.4 Crummell, Alexander, 63 Daniel, Uncle, 18-19 Dauphin. SeeDuke and dauphin Delany, Martin, 63 Dialect, in AHF, xvi Doctor (inAHF), 130 Dodge, Mrs. (slave owner), 92-93 Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes ), 61 Double-voicing, 42, 46-47, 49, 50, 51,87, 140n.7,141n.lO Douglass, Frederick, xxii, 16, 17, 52, 57, 63, 64, 83, 99, 100, 128-29 Douglass9 Monthly, xxi, 16, 70, 98-99 Duke and dauphin, 31, 34, 65, 69, 91, 92, 95-98, 100-01, 107-08, 109,110,111,116,123-24 Elevator, The, xxi Eliot, T. S.,89 Ellison, Ralph,xiii, xxii-xxiii, 3, 6, 7; Invisible Man, 25 Emerson, RalphWaldo, xxii Equiano, Olaudah,16 Evers, Medgar, 9 Faulkner, William, 91 Feud, in AHF, 65, 86 Film versions of AHF, 29-32 Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, xxi,7, 17-18,25,133 Flake, Doron, xiii Flake, Marcela, xiii Fog logomachy, 55-57 Folklore, 90-91 Free professor from the North, 30, 33-34,35-40,64,114,133 Freedman's Journal, The, xxi,78-79 French language logomachy, 52-54 Frye, Northrop, 33, 132 Fugitive Slave Act, 84 Garratt, Rev. Samuel, 78-79 Garrison, William Lloyd, 128-29 Garvey, Marcus, 58, 63 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., xxii, 48 Grangerford family, 34, 83-88; slaves of, 35, 82-83, 84^85, 88 Griffin, George, 18, 22-23 Grimke, Charlotte-Forten, xxii Harlem Renaissance, 57-58, 62-63 Index 155 Harper, Frances, xxii, 17, 46, 57, 69, 92, 93-95 Harris, Joel Chandler, xvi-xvii Hartford, Connecticut, 7 Hemingway, Ernest, xv Henry, Peaches, 122, 137n.2 Hentoff, Nat, 6-7 Hero, definitions of, 12-14 High schools, AHF in, xii, xiii, 137n.2, 137n.4 Hopkins, Pauline, xxii, 57 Horatio, 32 Howells, William Dean, 6, 19-21,22 Huck: admiration for Tom Sawyer, 115, 119, 120, 121;as adolescent, 34, 112, 121; allegiance to Jim, 66, 76-77,97,101,112-13,115,117, 121-22; apology toJim, 56-57; boarding the wreck, 43--44; and the dilemma of conscience, 34-35, 45,56-57,66,71-73,74,75,84, 111...