Rawles wanted to consider the familiar tale from the perspective of the family Jim left behind - and to consider the shattered families of many slaves. The aim of its author, Nancy Rawles, was to re-imagine Jim as more than a runaway drifting down the Mississippi River with a delinquent youth, more than the gullible victim and moral father figure to Huck that Twain portrays. "My Jim" is the first-person story of Sadie, the wife of Huck's enslaved traveling companion. The latest turn in the national conversation is toward a more intimate look into the lives of slaves, led by a novel that revisits Mark Twain's classic and racially charged tale, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Each generation seems compelled to confront the institution anew in search of modern understandings. Well over a century after it was abolished, slavery lingers in the American psyche, infuriating as it entices. A nuanced critique of the great American novel,My Jimstands on its own as a haunting and inspiring story about freedom, longing, and the remarkable endurance of love.BERKELEY, Calif. Told with spare eloquence and mirroring the true stories of countless slave women,My Jimre-creates one of the most controversial characters in American literature.
Worried about her children, convinced her husband is dead, reviled as a witch, and punished for Jim's escape, Sadie's will and her love for Jim, even in absentia, animate her life and see her through. Sadie's Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck. To help her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn's Jim Written in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery,My Jimis told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who schools her granddaughter with lessons of love she learned in bondage.
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