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Article: Wieck, Carl F. Refiguring Huckleberry Finn.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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Athens: U of Georgia P, 2000. xvi, 239 pp. $40.00.
This is an unlikely moment in which to celebrate Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Indeed, given the renewed critical interest in the novel's implicit racism and the impact that racism has had (and continues to have) on American culture, even those who defend Twain's satire end up seeming a bit, well, defensive. This critical climate makes the project of Carl Wieck's Refiguring Huckleberry Finn, which, as he claims, aims to "kindle enthusiasm for the enlivening experience that the hours spent with Huckleberry Finn can provide" (x), all the more difficult to understand.
Wieck describes the book as a ...