Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast focuses on Raoul Peck’s HBO documentary series.
Tag: Imperialism
Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain
Amy Kaplan’s scholarship presents important challenges for Twain Studies.
Twain in Hawaii is the focus of the next Trouble Begins Lecture
Elmira, New York — The spring portion of the 2017-2018 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series, presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies, continues Wednesday, May 23 in Cowles Hall, Elmira College. The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The third lecture, “An American Cannibal at Home: Comic Diplomacy in Mark Twain’s Hawai’i” will be presented by Todd Nathan Thompson from the Indiana University of […]
Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer” Excites 21st-Century Artists & Activists
In the recently published 2017 issue of Mark Twain Annual, Susan L. Eastman of University of Tennessee – Chattanooga discusses the distinctly contemporary resonances of a short story, “The War Prayer,” which was not published until thirteen years after the death of its author. Twain’s incisive posthumous indictment of imperial militarism, as Eastman puts it, “buoys the anti-war movement in the twenty-first century,” having been adapted and analyzed “in media beyond Twain’s […]