So they're dropping racial slurs in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn for the next edition. N word and I word are both gone. What does everyone think about this? I have an opinion and will tell it later but would like to know if anyone else has a thought about it. New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to lose the 'n' word | Shelf Life | EW.com
we all have the same opinion. its ludicrous. twain is the best american writer ever, by a mile. and huckleberry finn is not only the best thing any of us have ever read, it is probably the finest piece of art of any kind any of us has ever seen. that said, this is just a publicity stunt made by some irrelevant publishing company on some edition that will never sell.
This was on WJ this morning. Ann Frank and remove the Holocaust stuff. It's too terrible for kids to read.. haha
i hate to give this publicity hound more credit than he deserves, because he is doing this purely for money, but i should note that ****** jim was pointedly one of the only good-hearted characters in a book which is a blistering critique of just about everything and everyone. everyone in that books is a scheming scroundrel, or grandstanding idiot, except huck and a few of his close friends. ****** jim is basically the hero of sanity and goodness in that book. thats what always bothers me about the clampdown on racial slurs. its never about words it is about context. even here i cant talk about literature without getting alot of asterisks. i understand why it has to be that way, but it is annoying.
1. Censorship has never worked in this country. It is morally wrong to censor classic literature. 2. This tripe will be ignored and quickly end up in the "bad idea" section of the museum next to the colorized "Casablanca" VHS, the creationism textbooks, leisure suits, the Corvair, and New Coke.
