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Matt Okie: Mark Twain scholar and Stanford University professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin has argued that the character Huckleberry Finn was, in part, inspired by Twain’s encounters with a ten-year-old African-American servant. If true, what does it mean for American Literature that under its seemingly white male guise, is really a black consciousness?
Junot Diaz: [laughs] That’s the first question?
