Lighting Out for the Territory Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture

"A study of author Mark Twain, exploring his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri and looking at how it honors his memory, describing the author's efforts to recover incidents from the past, and charting how Twain continues to shape the culture of the United States."@en
"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."@en
"Fishkin "offers an intriguing look at how Mark Twain's life and work have been cherished, memorialized, exploited, and misunderstood.""
"Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture reveals who Mark Twain really was, how he got to be that way, and what we do with his legacies today. How did this son of slave holders come to write one the greatest anti-racist works of fiction of all time? Why is that remarkable odyssey erased today in his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri? Which aspects of Twain are celebrated or exploited today and which are ignored? Whether she is probing Twain's presence in cyberspace or in the classroom, in advertising or animated cartoons, author Shelley Fisher Fishkin is incisive and imaginative. Her boldly original blend of personal narrative, biography, history, and criticism will change the way we look at Mark Twain and, perhaps, ourselves."

"Lighting out for the territory : Reflections on Mark Twain and American culture"
"Lighting Out for the Territory Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture"@en
"Lighting out for the territory reflections on Mark Twain and American culture"@en
"Lighting out for the territory reflections on Mark Twain and American culture"
"Lighting out for the territory : reflections on Mark Twain and American culture"@en
"Lighting out for the territory : reflections on Mark Twain and American culture"