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undefined. The student is quoting from page 195 of the following essay: Pérez-Torres, Rafael. “Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness.” Tony Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook. Ed. William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 179-201. Print.
◯ According to Pérez-Torres, Beloved “offers a radical revisioning and recounting of history” (195).
◯ According to Pérez-Torres, Beloved “offers a radical revisioning and recounting of history” (“Between Presence and Absence” 195).
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undefined. The student is quoting from page 183 of the following collection: Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Ed. Gregg Camfield. Boston: Bedford, 2008. Print. Bedford Coll. Editions.
◯ As the novel progresses and he gets to know Jim better, Huck begins to understand that a black slave can experience emotions too. After observing Jim’s mourning for the family he left behind, Huck says, “I do believe [Jim] cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n” (Twain 183).
◯ As the novel progresses and he gets to know Jim better, Huck begins to understand that a black slave can experience emotions too. After observing Jim’s mourning for the family he left behind, Huck says, “I do believe [Jim] cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n” (Camfield 183).
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undefined. The student is quoting from page 52 of the following book: Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. New York: Vintage, 1993. Print.
◯ Morrison criticizes white authors for using black characters as mere props to expose their own characterizations:Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not repulsive, but desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful; not history-less, but historical; not damned, but innocent; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny. (52)
◯ Morrison criticizes white authors for using black characters as mere props to expose their own characterizations:“Africanism is the vehicle by which the American self knows itself as not enslaved, but free; not repulsive, but desirable; not helpless, but licensed and powerful; not history-less, but historical; not damned, but innocent; not a blind accident of evolution, but a progressive fulfillment of destiny.” (52)
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undefined. The student is paraphrasing from page 32 of the following book: Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Plume, 1988. Print.The works cited list includes another work by Morrison.
◯ Morrison deliberately alludes to Twain’s book by sending Amy on a hunt for huckleberries when she first encounters Sethe in the woods (32).
◯ Morrison deliberately alludes to Twain’s book by sending Amy on a hunt for huckleberries when she first encounters Sethe in the woods (Beloved 32).
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undefined. The student is quoting from page 339 of the following essay: Mayer, Sylvia. “ ‘You Like Huckleberries?’ Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. Ed. Werner Sollors and Maria Diedrich. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. 339-46. Print. Harvard English Studies 19.
◯ Mayer claims that Morrison uses the character of Amy “to explore . . . the conflict between ‘freedom’ and ‘civilization’ in a society deeply affected by slavery” (339).
◯ Mayer claims that Morrison uses the character of Amy “to explore . . . the conflict between ‘freedom’ and ‘civilization’ in a society deeply affected by slavery” (Sollors and Diedrich 339).
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undefined. The student is quoting from the following online source: Railton, Stephen. “Imaging ‘Slavery’ in MT’s Books.” Mark Twain in His Times. Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia, 2007. Web. 6 Nov. 2008.
◯ Railton suggests that, “even after slavery has been abolished, there remains the problem of understanding what it was like, what its legacy is, what it says about the nation’s culture” (“Imaging”).
◯ Railton suggests that, “even after slavery has been abolished, there remains the problem of understanding what it was like, what its legacy is, what it says about the nation’s culture.”
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undefined. The student is quoting from page 207 of the following article: Amare, Nicole, and Alan Manning. “Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.” Explicator 62.4 (2004): 206-09. Print.
◯ Some critics have asserted that Twain, like many authors of fiction, “relies heavily on names for satirical gain” (Amare and Manning 207).
◯ Some critics have asserted that Twain, like many authors of fiction, “relies heavily on names for satirical gain” (Amare et al. 207).
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undefined. The student is quoting from a book review accessed online: Atwood, Margaret. “Jaunted by Their Nightmares.” Rev. of Beloved, by Toni Morrison. New York Times. New York Times, 13 Sept. 1987. Web. 14 Nov. 2008.
◯ As the New York Times points out in its review, “Toni Morrison is careful not to make all the whites awful and all the blacks wonderful.”
◯ As Atwood points out in her review, “Toni Morrison is careful not to make all the whites awful and all the blacks wonderful.”
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undefined. The student is quoting Mark Twain from page 377 of the following article in a collection: Kaplan, Justin. “Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Ed. Gerald Graff and James Phelan. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2004. 371-81. Print.
◯ As Twain himself has said, Huckleberry Finn is a book in which “[a] sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat” (qtd. in Kaplan 377).
◯ As Twain himself has said, Huckleberry Finn is a book in which “[a] sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat” (Kaplan 377).
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undefined. The student is quoting from the following article accessed in an online database: Hamlin, Annemarie, and Constance Joyner. “Racism and Real Life: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Undergraduate Survey of American Literature.” Radical Teacher 80 (2007): 12-18. Academic OneFile. Web. 13 Nov. 2008.
◯ Some critics argue that “students of Huck Finn can begin to see the social construction of race and its impact on blacks and whites through the novel’s narrator, especially when the narrative is placed alongside something more contemporary like Morrison’s work” (Hamlin and Joyner).
◯ Some critics argue that “students of Huck Finn can begin to see the social construction of race and its impact on blacks and whites through the novel’s narrator, especially when the narrative is placed alongside something more contemporary like Morrison’s work” (Hamlin).
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