{"product_id":"jim-the-life-and-afterlives-of-huckleberry-finns-comrade-9780300288612","title":"Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Twain's Jim, introduced in \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain's alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim's many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before--a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shelley Fisher Fishkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300288612","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45427385335945,"sku":"9780300288612","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_32045847-68cc-4a65-9549-d19a12d8b43b.jpg?v=1774377877","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/jim-the-life-and-afterlives-of-huckleberry-finns-comrade-9780300288612","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}