N - Harris, James Henry
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"In this moving memoir punctuated by keen literary criticism and bold cultural critique, James Henry Harris recounts his experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time in graduate school. Harris describes his emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet nigger, voiced over two hundred times in the text. Above all, his story will challenge readers to reflect deeply on the ongoing legacy of racism and white supremacy that is forever linked to the N-word"--Back cover

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"In this moving memoir punctuated by keen literary criticism and bold cultural critique, James Henry Harris recounts his experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time in graduate school. Harris describes his emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet nigger, voiced over two hundred times in the text. Above all, his story will challenge readers to reflect deeply on the ongoing legacy of racism and white supremacy that is forever linked to the N-word"--Back cover
Autorenporträt
James Henry Harris is Distinguished Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology and a research scholar in religion and humanities at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. He also serves as chair of the theology faculty and pastor of Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and recipient of the Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including Beyond the Tyranny of the Text and Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope (Fortress Press, 2020).