Haselstein, in her chapter "Of Masks and Men", analyses Percival Everett's novel James (2024) as a compendium of different narrative and intertextual modes of continuation, with adventure as the main trajectory. Responding to African American critiques and academic readings of Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Everett's James constitutes both a re-writing of a literary classic and an adaptation of the genre of the slave narrative that echoes Twain's own parody of adventure and takes it to new horizons. Apart from demonstrating how rewriting/adaptation/parody illuminate and provide an analytical frame for each other, Haselstein also discusses Twain's canonical status, Twain criticism, constructions of the African American literary tradition, and the narrative dynamics of contemporary popular adventure.