Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism.(Book review)

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Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism. Henry B. Wonham. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. viii + 196 pages. $40 cloth.

Mark Twain handpicked the overtly racist illustrator E.W. Kemble, author of such bestselling titles as A Coon's Alphabet and Coontown's 400, to illustrate his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This disturbing fact, that arguably the most important author of the realist movement deliberately employed a racist caricaturi...

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