Huck Finn (Updated)

As you know we have begun The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this week in class. The NY Times article below is about a  professor that is attempting to alter the text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is a topic we will discuss further in the next few weeks and will most likely show up as an essay question. Here are a few links to some stories about the controversy:

This is from the New York Daily News and some of the reader comments are interesting to say the least...
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/01/05/2011-01-05_take_the_nword_out_of_huck_finn_its_an_insult_to_mark_twain__and_to_american_his.html

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45645-upcoming-newsouth-huck-finn-eliminates-the-n-word.html

Here are a few articles from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/05/does-one-word-change-huckleberry-finn

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/07/us/a-scholar-finds-huck-finn-s-voice-in-twain-s-writing-about-a-black-youth.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/24/books/adapting-and-revising-twain-s-huck-finn.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/05/does-one-word-change-huckleberry-finn/why-bother-reading-huckleberry-finn


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.and another from the NY Times about Pap Finn
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/05/does-one-word-change-huckleberry-finn/the-words-of-pap-finns-rant

What do you think?