Mark Twain at the Turn of the Century,1890-1910: On His Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism

这个项目的重点是马克吐温的生活和工作中相对被忽视的时期，特别是在世纪之交的时期，1890年至1910年。尽管马克·吐温的最后几年可能很复杂，但我在这里描绘的他最后几年的画面可能会帮助读者看到一个仍然非常活跃的马克·吐温，他对我们种族的未来并不一定悲观。本文主要从他的游记《赤道之行》（1897）和小说《青年撒旦纪事》（1969）中探讨他的反帝国主义言论。可以得出的一些结论包括：（1）虽然吐温的幽默风格的“联想”和“离题”的故事，他从他早年在西方学到的，仍然活着，它已经改变了社会和政治。(2)这种转变是社会和政治方面深入思考的新阶段的结果。

This project focuses on a relatively neglected period in Mark Twain's life and work, and specifically on the period at the turn of the century, 1890-1910. Complex as his last years might be, the picture of his last years I draw here might help readers to see a Mark Twain who is still quite active and not necessarily pessimistic over the future of our race. I discuss his rhetoric of anti-imperialism, mainly in his travelogue Following the Equator (1897) and his story “The Chronicle of Young Satan" (1969). Some conclusions that could be drawn include: (1) Although Twain's humorous style of “associative" and “digressive" storytelling, which he learned from his early years in the West, is still alive, it has been transformed socially and politically. (2) That transformation is the result of a new phase of deep thinking, both social and political.