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**ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIWAN**
美國史丹福大學美國研究教授Shelley Fisher Fishkin將於6月25日（週三）假中央研究院歐美研究所演講，講題為**「Can Literature Come to the Rescue when History is Under Siege?」**。
詳細資訊與報名連結：https://farmforchange.ea.sinica.edu.tw/Academic-Events
**Can Literature Come to the Rescue when History is Under Siege? How One Novel Can Be a Trojan Horse to Engage Questions Some Politicians Don’t Want Us to Ask?**

**講者：**Shelley Fisher Fishkin｜美國史丹福大學美國研究教授｜Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade (2025) 作者

**與談：**王安琪｜臺灣大學外國語文學系退休教授
李翠玉｜高雄師範大學英語系教授暨英美文學學會會長
**主持：**周序樺｜中央研究院歐美研究所副研究員
**時間：**2025年6月25日（三）10:00~12:00
**地點：**中央研究院歐美研究所一樓會議室｜視訊與實體並行

與本講題相關的書籍：
《*Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade》*
由耶魯大學出版社於4月出版。

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**圖書簡介：**
The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers.controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.“Fishkin—the intellectual colossus of Mark Twain’s work—has written an extraordinary and necessary explication of Twain’s iconic and transcendent character Jim—the moral arbiter of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”—Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires

**作者簡介：**
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee and Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, and editor of the twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain.
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Very grateful to my hosts, Professor Serena Chou of Academia Sinica and Professor Jade Li, President of EALA. I want to thank Jade Li and An-chi Wang, Professor Emeritus at NTU for their stimulating and rich responses to my talk. And I want to thank my dear friend, the indefatigable Hsinya Huang, Distinguished Professor of American and Comparative Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University for all she did to set all this in motion. It was a special treat to have An-chi Wang, who is responsible for the best (and most recent) Chinese translation of Huck Finn as a respondent (she is the hero of chapter 6 of my book), and I’m gratified that Professor Rose Juan is arranging to publish portions of my talk, along with the great responses of Jade Li and An-chi Wang, in forthcoming publications from the English Language and LIterature Association of Taiwan. Lovely, as well, to see old friends Professors Pin-chia Feng and Wen-ching Ho. I’m grateful for all the good questions and lively discussion! A few of the colleagues who attended are pictured here: clockwise: Li-Hsin Hsu, Tsui-Fen Jiang, Jade Li, Pin-chia Feng, Hsinya Huang, Serena Chou, Shelley Fishkin, An-chi Wang, Wen-ching Ho, and Rose Juan.