![]() ![]() The publisher, NewSouth Books, has been roundly criticized for making the word change. ![]() In an introduction to the new edition, he wrote, “even at the level of college and graduate school, students are capable of resenting textual encounters with this racial appellative.” The Project Gutenberg A scene from Chapter 9 in the 1885 edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."Ī new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has generated much controversy because it will replace the word "nigger," which occurs 219 times in the book, with "slave." (The edition also substitutes "Indian" for "injun.") Alan Gribben, an English professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, proposed the idea to the publisher because he believes the pervasive use of that word makes it harder for students to read or absorb the book. ![]()
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