Three Books on Slavery
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain James - Percival Everett Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass I should say at the outset that I am not a scholar of black studies or sociology or post-modernist post-structuralism. I am skeptical by nature of cultural criticism which mostly strikes me as just-so stories that happen to justify the biases of the critic. And don’t even get me started on music critics like Lester Bangs or Greil Marcus who view the value of musical work primarily through the lens of counterculture. I am sure that there is much context and deeper meaning in these three works than I perceive. I am not even a literary critic, admittedly dense in the nature of literary tricks like metaphor, analogy, and allusion. So, take this review for what it’s worth. This review is a three-books-in-one (aren’t you lucky). It started because I wanted to read “James” by Percival Everett, which seems to be on everyone...