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Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Pudd’nhead Wilson
lawyer uses fingerprint evidence to win his client’s acquittal and expose the true murderer. [Am. Lit.: Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson; Benét, 824]
See : Sleuthing

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Commentary on Pudd'nhead Wilson refers to Twain's introduction of fingerprinting to detective lore.
Ruscha claims that reading Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson got him started on these two letters.
While Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) challenges white supremacist discourse on rape and white womanhood, it simultaneously sustains the stereotype of black female promiscuity.
 
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