... , nowhere socially recognizable."" (Gillman, p. 95) Even when viewing Twain through the nineteenth century lens, it is necessary to call him on his attitudes concerning racial superiority and inferiority. From Innocents Abroad to Pudd'nhead Wilson, Twain's on-going minstrel show morphs into the increasingly vicious and threatening "coon- show. While his social commentary holds white society up to a harsh light, it ... ...

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