Good lord.

 I didn't know Alan was doing this but I guess it doesn't surprise me. It
generates a lot of talk though doesn't it? Seems like it would make a good
classroom discussion.
(Although, I tried to get my CORE class to discuss the violence over the
Danish cartoons of Muhammed and I got a lot of shrugging - like, what's the
big deal? So maybe I'm not a judge of what makes for a good classroom
discussion. It seemed like Worlds Colliding to me.)

I tried to look at all the comments to see if we knew anyone but I ran out
of steam.

On purely aesthetic grounds the thought of this sort of thing makes me
cringe. I can hear the dialogue in my head and I know I'd be mumbling and
swearing to myself as I went along, mentally re-inserting the original.



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael Kiskis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> A former student sent me this link to a story about a new edition of Huck
> --
> to be edited by Alan Gribben.  If you read the story, scroll down to read
> the variety of comments.
>
>
> http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/01/03/huckleberry-finn-n-word-censor-edit/?hpt=T2
>
> --
> Michael J. Kiskis
> Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature
> Elmira College
> One Park Place
> Elmira, NY  14901
>



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