I'm thinking mostly of some hypertrophied backlash to these two pieces...
To The Person Sitting In Darkness
The United States Of Lyncherdom
And I don't mean he's ostracized to the point of eg. students at Yale needing special permission to take his books from the library(as I've heard was the case with De Sade well into the 20th Century). He'd still be read and enjoyed in university literature classes, and by the higher-browed among laymen. But he'd be considered suspect enough that no one would dream of making a movie of Tom Sawyer geared toward kids, or even a pop-up book of The Jumping Frog Contest.
(Maybe something roughly analagous to the way the beats were treated a few generations later: you could buy Howl at Waldenbooks, but Ginsberg wasn't getting invited to do cameos on Sesame Street.)
I'm wondering if a more vicious(from the US perspective) Philippine occupation, with the war brought back to the motherland via domestic terrorism, would cause TTPSID being to be viewed with a more hostile eye(parts of it actually sound like they could be part of a terrorist communique). And Twain himself said he refrained from publishing Lyncherdom because it would destroy his reputation in the south.
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To The Person Sitting In Darkness
The United States Of Lyncherdom
And I don't mean he's ostracized to the point of eg. students at Yale needing special permission to take his books from the library(as I've heard was the case with De Sade well into the 20th Century). He'd still be read and enjoyed in university literature classes, and by the higher-browed among laymen. But he'd be considered suspect enough that no one would dream of making a movie of Tom Sawyer geared toward kids, or even a pop-up book of The Jumping Frog Contest.
(Maybe something roughly analagous to the way the beats were treated a few generations later: you could buy Howl at Waldenbooks, but Ginsberg wasn't getting invited to do cameos on Sesame Street.)
I'm wondering if a more vicious(from the US perspective) Philippine occupation, with the war brought back to the motherland via domestic terrorism, would cause TTPSID being to be viewed with a more hostile eye(parts of it actually sound like they could be part of a terrorist communique). And Twain himself said he refrained from publishing Lyncherdom because it would destroy his reputation in the south.
[IF THE SECOND LINK DOESN'T WORK, SEE POST 31 ON THE NEXT PAGE.]
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