JOURNALS - SPECIAL ISSUE

_Mark Twain Studies: Special Feature I: New Perspectives on 'The
War-Prayer' -- An International Forum and Special Feature II: Twain and
Asia_, Volume 2, October 2006. 192 pages. ISSN 1349-4635. Single issues $23
plus $3 shipping. This English language journal is published by the Japan
Mark Twain Society every three years. Shelley Fisher Fishkin has written an
introduction for an international round-table discussion on Twain's "The
War-Prayer" and provides a corrected text from Twain's manuscript and
typescript. Twenty-six essays of several pages each are featured. The
essays range in approach from historical to literary to personal. American
contributors whose names will be familiar to members of the Mark Twain
Forum include Ron Powers, Kevin Mac Donnell, Wesley Britton, Dwayne Eutsey,
Martin Zehr, Michael Kiskis, Darryl Brock, and Barry Crimmins.

The second feature of this issue is a section titled "Twain and Asia" and
features three essays: "From 'Mark Twain's Pet' to ''Merican Jap': The
Strange Career of Wallace Irwin's Hashimura Togo" by Uzawa Yoshiko; "Not
Twain, But Twichell: The Hartford Support System of Edward House's Japanese
Students" by Takashima Mariko; and "Representations of the Chinese Other in
Mark Twain's World" by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss.

Single issues can be ordered by sending your name and address and an
international money order for $26 to:

Dr. ISHIHARA Tsuyoshi
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BOOKS

_Inuit Entertainers in the United States: From the Chicago World's Fair
through the Birth of Hollywood_. By Jim Zwick. Softcover. 206 pages.
Infinity Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 0741434881. $18.95. Zwick, better known in
Mark Twain circles as a researcher on Twain's views regarding
anti-imperialism, has turned his recent attention to tracking the lives of
Inuit performers who were brought to the United States for exhibition in
World's Fair expositions. Zwick makes outstanding use of historical
newspaper databases to trace the entertainment careers of Esther Eneutseak
and her daughter Columbia who was born at the Chicago World's Columbian
exposition in 1893. Zwick does not include Twain in this book but includes
the parallel on the website for the book. Twain's "The Esquimau Maiden's
Romance," first published in the November 1893 issue of _Cosmopolitan_ was
almost certainly inspired by the Eskimo Village exhibit at Chicago and the
accompanying newspaper reports related to conflicts between managers and
the Inuit over the refusal to wear fur in hot weather. Due to illness,
Twain did not leave his Chicago hotel room to visit the Chicago World's
Fair but he did visit the Charleston Exposition in 1902 and the Jamestown
Exposition in 1907 where Esther and her Inuit family were also featured.

The website for the book is:
http://www.inuitentertainers.com/

Amazon webpage for this book is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0741434881/twainwebmarktwaiA