Shelley Fisher Fishkin: 2 books
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies
American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...