Sitting in Darkness Eliot R. Smith But animal children are every

But animal children are every bit as restless as their human counterparts

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

Henry de Montherlant

Clint Otto

Sitting in Darkness Eliot R. Smith But animal children are everyPerhaps 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.