Mark Twain among the Indians and other indigenous peoples / Kerry Driscoll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driscoll, Kerry, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Indians of North America--Social conditions.

Criticism and interpretation.

Political and social views.

Indians.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

West United States.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Characters--Indians.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Clemens, Orion, 1825-1897.

Clemens, Orion.

Indians of North America--Social conditions--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians in literature.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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" -- Provided by publisher.

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."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-419) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Driscoll, Kerry. Mark Twain among the Indians and other native peoples.

ISBN:

9780520279421

0520279425

OCLC:

1015264193