Moore’ piece, along with the decision of NewSouth Books to publish an edition of the Twain classic with slave replacing the word “nigger” in the text (leading to a quip on the Daily Show that black Americans had received an upgrade), has forced me to re-examine why I teach Huckleberry Finn in my eleventh grade American history class-an act of introspection which is always worthwhile for teachers. On January 16, 2011, author Lorrie Moore published an opinion piece in the New York Times suggesting that Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn be excluded from the high school curriculum as adolescents lack the knowledge and experience to place this controversial text within proper context.
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