Lighting Out for the Territory by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
In this work, Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin blends personal narrative with reflections on history, literature, and popular culture to provide a provocative look at who Mark Twain really was, how he got to be that way, and what we do with his legacy today.
Lighting Out for the Territory is an energetic report on how Twain's attitude toward race developed, how his works have been used and abused, and how the image of himself that he so carefully invented has been coerced in making guest appearances in other people's fiction, movies, plays* Washington Post *
Ms. Fishkin's reflections on Mark Twain and American culture are an illuminating companion to any consideration of Twain's work. * New York Times Book Review *
Ms. Fishkin's reflections on Mark Twain and American culture are an illuminating companion to any consideration of Twain's work. * New York Times Book Review *
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of American Studies and of English at the University of Texas, at Austin. She is the author of the highly acclaimed study Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices and the award-winning book From Fact to Fiction: Journalism & Imaginative Writing in America, and is the Editor of The Oxford Mark Twain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195121223 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195121228 |
| Title | Lighting Out for the Territory |
| Author | Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1998-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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