SOURCE: Arac, Jonathan. “Nationalism and Hypercanonization.” In Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time pp. 133-153 Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
In the following essay, Arac disputes the idea that Huckleberry Finn, is emblematic of quintessential “American” values.
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