Edited Mark Twain novels stir concern from Oklahomans
A local English professor says he is outraged over new edited versions of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” due out in February.
The Mark Twain novels use the n-word 219 times in “Huck Finn” and four times in “Tom Sawyer.” In a new volume containing the two novels, Twain scholar Alan Gribben replaces the n-word with “slave” and “injun” with Indian.
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