{"id":2737,"date":"2011-01-04T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/re-writing-twain\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:32:37","slug":"re-writing-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/re-writing-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-writing Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/05\/books\/05huck.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Publisher Tinkers With Twain<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12px; font-size: 10px; color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/julie_bosman\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #004276; text-decoration: none\" class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More Articles by Julie Bosman\">JULIE BOSMAN<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new edition of \u201cAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u201d is missing something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/hf.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Throughout the book \u2014 219 times in all \u2014 the word \u201cnigger\u201d is replaced by \u201cslave,\u201d a substitution that was made by NewSouth Books, a publisher based in Alabama, which plans to release the edition in February.Some English teachers were less than thrilled about the idea of cleaning up a classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not offended by anything in \u2018Huck Finn,\u2019\u00a0\u201d said Elizabeth Absher, an English teacher at South Mountain High School in Arizona. \u201cI am a big fan of Mark Twain, and I hear a lot worse in the hallway in front of my class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Absher teaches Twain short stories and makes \u201cHuck Finn\u201d available but does not teach it because it is too long \u2014 not because of the language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think authors\u2019 language should be left alone,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it\u2019s too offensive, it doesn\u2019t belong in school, but if it expresses the way people felt about race or slavery in the context of their time, that\u2019s something I\u2019d talk about in teaching it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/05\/books\/05huck.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full rationalization at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Publisher Tinkers With Twain By\u00a0JULIE BOSMAN A new edition of \u201cAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u201d is missing something. Throughout the book \u2014 219 times in all \u2014 the word \u201cnigger\u201d is replaced by \u201cslave,\u201d a substitution that was made by NewSouth Books, a publisher based in Alabama, which plans to release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}