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03-14-2020, 04:26 PM | #24 | |
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In a slightly different vein in the States, but revisionist nonetheless, there has been concerted efforts for over a century to get the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer banned from classrooms and libraries for the alleged racism and racial slurs that were part of the idiom of the era, and a fundamental issue the writer wrestled with in the books themselves. Humorously enough, Mark Twain was a devout abolitionist, anti-racist and supporter of the emancipation of slaves. But rather than taking things in context and using the book as a learning tool for racism that still remains an issue, bans periodically go into effect. Twain, for his part, took it in stride, because even in his lifetime there were bannings. Twain wrote in 1885: "The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass., have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have expelled Huck from their library as 'trash and suitable only for the slums.' That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure." Twain, like Tolkien, remained relatively unrepentant throughout their lives for how their works may be construed. And bravo for that.
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