Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Hardcover

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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, HardcoverThe 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

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