I have put a paper I presented at last week's American Studies
Association / Canadian Association for American Studies conference
online:
The Contested Public Memory of an American Icon: Mark Twain's
Anti-Imperialist Writings
http://www.accinet.net/~fjzwick/twain/contested.html
It deals with how Twain's anti-imperialist writings were suppressed,
selectively censored by Paine, debated during the Cold War, and
revived as antiwar writings from the 1960s onward. It was part of a
panel entitled "Battles After the War: Re-Visions of the
Philippine-American War in Cultural Narratives of Race and Empire."
The panel was chaired by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and also included
the following papers:
Nerissa S. Balce, "Public Images, Emergent Histories: Narrating
Empire and Filipino American History"
Jean Vengua Gier, "Incorporating Filipinos into the War Effort: The
_Bataan_ Films"
I hope to have these papers online later in the month.
If anyone knows of additional examples of how Twain's
anti-imperialist writings have been used after his death, I would be
very interested in hearing about them. Thanks in advance.
Jim Zwick
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