Tag Archives: The Finkler Question

FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Dave

Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading →

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JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice Over The Finkler Question

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dave

…Howard Jacobson grew up in working-class Manchester, to a father who worked as a children’s entertainer and who ran a market stall selling trinkets. Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Leavis. “I’m … Continue reading →