Sitting in Darkness Eliot R. Smith McIsaac rethinks how fundamental cultural

McIsaac rethinks how fundamental cultural “truths” define what it means to belong to acculturated communities

and current threats to its existence

Clint Otto

and survey the nation's territorial expansions in the South and West

how can newspapers survive and thrive

Sitting in Darkness Eliot R. Smith McIsaac rethinks how fundamental culturalPerhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu examines Twain's career long archive of writings about United States relations with China and the Philippines.