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Novel · 2024

James

Percival Everett

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Novel · 2024 · American · Contemporary

James

Percival Everett

The river journey of Huckleberry Finn is retold through Jim's perspective.

Historical fictionRetellingSlaveryLanguageFreedom

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Controlled shifts of speech reveal linguistic performance as survival. Retelling restores an interior life while questioning whose account becomes the recognised classic.

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