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Get the Summary of Percival Everett's James in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. James (2024) by best-selling author Percival Everett is a new take on the 1885 classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Jim, a slave in Hannibal, Missouri, learns that he is facing separation from his family. He hides on Jackson Island, where he meets Huck Finn, a white boy who has escaped his abusive father. They embark...
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What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts...
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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