Call for Papers: Forum on Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" in Mark Twain
Studies #2

Despite its importance, Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" has received
almost no critical attention from scholars. The next issue  of Mark
Twain Studies (Japan),  devoted to "Twain and Asia," will redress
some of this neglect.  For a special international forum  in volume 2
of Mark Twain Studies, co-editors  Takayuki Tatsumi and Shelley
Fisher Fishkin seek short commentaries and essays on "The War
Prayer."Essays of up to 1250 words in length (five pages or under)
might consider "The War Prayer" in relation to the
Philippine-American War (which prompted Twain to write it), or other
writing by Twain inspired by events in Asia;  in relation to other
works by Twain ( such as Twain's writings on war, on religion, on
strangers, on the "lie of silent assertion," or other themes);  or in
relation to works by other writers (such as anti-war writing by U.S.
and non-U.S. authors).  We welcome literary, rhetorical, historical,
and political analyses, along with discussions of the place of the
text in popular culture in the U.S. and abroad. Please email essays
by January 15, 2006, to: Takayuki TATSUMI [[log in to unmask]], and
Shelley Fisher Fishkin [[log in to unmask]]   under the
subject-heading "The War Prayer."