An Afropessimist Interpretation of Huckleberry Finn

This paper analyzes Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the lens Afropessimism, a critical theory which characterizes Blackness as being in perpetual state ontological death that is linked to slavery America. The author argues racist ‘anti-racist’ rhetoric premised upon third tier terror anti-Blackness, white counter-hegemonic thought, manifests gross negrophilia Black people, both and personal life. forcing narrative structure his characters novel with clear value precludes any possible investigation only reproducing various forms anti-Black racism. Ultimately, contends survival use this copy slave study racism America inherently problematic, it demonstrates limitations mind wholly accurately articulating suffering.