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  title info:
    title: Mark Twain among the Indians and other indigenous peoples
  name:
    name part: Driscoll, Kerry
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer's evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials, including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens's personal library, Driscoll charts the development of the writer's ethnocentric attitudes about Indians and savagery in relation to the geographic and social milieus of various communities that he inhabited at key periods in his life, from antebellum Hannibal, Missouri and the Sierra Nevada mining camps of the 1860s to the progressive urban enclave of Hartford's Nook Farm. The book also examines the impact of Clemens's 1895-96 world lecture tour, when he traveled to Australia and New Zealand and learned firsthand about the dispossession and mistreatment of native peoples under British colonial rule. This groundbreaking work of cultural studies offers fresh readings of canonical texts such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roughing It and Following the Equator, as well as a number of Twain's shorter works.
  table of contents: The romance and terror of Indians -- Blind in Nevada: early perceptions of Indians in the West -- Indians imagined, 1862-1872 -- The roots of racial animus in "The noble red man" -- "How much higher and finer is the Indian's god" -- The curious tale of the Connecticut Indian Association -- Indigenes abroad: the unseen aboriginals of Australia -- The Maori: "a superior breed of savages."
  note: Kerry Driscoll.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Twain, Mark
      name part: 1835-1910
    topic: Characters
    topic: Indians
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Twain, Mark
      name part: 1835-1910
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Twain, Mark
      name part: 1835-1910
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Clemens, Orion
      name part: 1825-1897
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Indians in literature
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: In literature
  classification: PS1342.I53 D75 2018
  classification: 818/.409
  identifier: 9780520279421
  identifier: 0520279425
  identifier: 9780520970663
  identifier: 2017056076
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171121
    record change date: 20181023092909.0
    record identifier: in00003999528