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Re: Twain and "The Noble Red Man"
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Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:42:36 -0600
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I agree with both Cebula and Zwick and would point out that _Life on the
Mississippi _ is an even earlier case of Twain's objection to European
conquest of the New World as "robbery" (Oxford MT, 37).

These few principled critiques of imperialism hardly outweigh the racist
vitriol that appears in "The Noble Red Man" or _Roughing It_.

LH

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