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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
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The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure
“Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”—Publishers Weekly
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the ...
“Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”—Publishers Weekly
Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the ...
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