Mark Twain among the Indians and other Indigenous peoples

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520310742 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- The romance and terror of Indians -- Blind in Nevada -- Indians imagined, 1862-72 -- 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 Maori -- Conclusion.