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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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Romancing the Indian: Sentimentalizing and Demonizing in Cooper and Twain

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Indians/main.html

"Representations of American Indians in nineteenth-century American literature were seldom culturally relative. Instead, the author often encoded in the American Indian caricature ("caricature" because these are rarely well-developed characters) his or her assumptions based on racial stereotypes, making the caricature a metonym for all AmericanIndians."

Contains: Criticism, Commentary

Author: Rissetto, Adriana

Keywords: Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Indians, Native Americans

 

 
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