Jim the life and afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's comrade

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...

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Main Author:	Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2025]
Series:	Black lives (Yale University Press)
Subjects:	Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Characters. Jim > (Fictitious character) Race relations in literature.
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