This week NewSouth Books announced the February publication of a new version of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This edition replaces the novel’s 219 instances of the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” Kurt asks the editor, Alan Gribben, about the consequences of creating a sanitized version of Twain’s original.
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