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"James" January 31, 2025

  • Bamaprogressive
  • Feb 7
  • 1 min read

"James", by Percival Everett, is a retelling of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", but told from the perspective of the slave Jim (James). When James is with white people (including Huck), he speaks in traditional slave dialect. When he narrates, however, or when he is only with other black people, and he is James, he speaks as a very well-educated man.


The effect on the reader, especially one who has lived in Alabama for more than eight decades, is surprising, to say the least. Do you think that may be what Everett had in mind?

 
 
 

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Bamaprogressive was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1943.  Except for his college years, he has lived there his entire life.  Bamaprogressive attended the University of Alabama , graduating with a degree in Music Education.  He was a high school band director for 16 years.  After earning enough credits to sit for the CPA exam at Auburn University, Bamaprogressive31 spent the remainder of his career at a local CPA firm.

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