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

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"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 s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Driscoll, Kerry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Characters > Indians.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Political and social views.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Clemens, Orion, > 1825-1897.
Indians of North America > Social conditions > 19th century.
Indians in literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Literature.
Political and social views.
West United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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"

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