LITERATURE AND HISTORY

HUCKLEBERRY FINN AND U.S.A. SLAVERY

Authors

  • Davi Gonçalves UNICENTRO
  • Ana Carolina de Sousa Mendes UNICENTRO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/uft2179-3948.2022v13n3p100-110

Abstract

Within this article, we analyse Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TWAIN, 1982), considering the political and social issues that pervade such novel. Relying on the contributions of Terry Eagleton (1984), Serge Gruzinsky (2001), and Farid Ameur (2010), we discuss how slavery and the consciousness of white people are manifested in the narrative. The basis for such endeavour concern the fact that Huck’s and Jim’s adventures constitute, for us, a prolific source of reflections for those willing to think of good manners, beliefs, moral values, and slavery during the XIX century, in the United States. Twain’s (1982) narrator dexterously develops themes which, albeit polemic, are very relevant for our contemporaneity – be that in what regards issues of class and races, as well as regarding the United States North-South divisionism. 

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Author Biography

Ana Carolina de Sousa Mendes, UNICENTRO

Graduada em Letras pela UNICENTRO. 

References

AMEUR, Farid. A Guerra de Secessão. Tradução Denise Bottmann. São Paulo: L&PM, 2010.

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EAGLETON, Terry. Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory. Londres: Verso, 1984.

GRUZINSKI, Serge. O Pensamento Mestiço. Trad. Rosa Freire d’Aguiar. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2001.

SILVA, Alexander Meireles. A subversão pela trapaça: o mito do trickster em Huckleberry Finn. Revista Eletrônica do Instituto de Humanidades, v. VI, n. XXII, 2007, pp. 1-13

TWAIN, Mark. As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn. Tradução Monteiro Lobato. Ed. Brasiliense, 1982.

Published

2023-02-01

How to Cite

Gonçalves, D., & Mendes, A. C. de S. (2023). LITERATURE AND HISTORY: HUCKLEBERRY FINN AND U.S.A. SLAVERY. EntreLetras, 13(3), 100–110. https://doi.org/10.20873/uft2179-3948.2022v13n3p100-110