Les sauvages américains: representations of Native Americans in French and English colonial literature
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Main Author: Sayre, Gordon M., (Gordon Mitchell) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©1997
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index
Ch. 1 - Colonial American Literature across Languages and Disciplines -- - Ch. 2 - John Smith and Samuel de Champlain: Founding Fathers and Their Indian Relations -- - Ch. 3 - Travel Narrative and Ethnography: Rhetorics of Colonial Writing -- - Ch. 4 - Clothing, Money, and Writing -- - Ch. 5 - The Beaver as Native and as Colonist -- - Ch. 6 - War, Captivity, Adoption, and Torture -- - Epilogue: Borders: Niagara, 1763 -- - Biographical Dictionary of Colonial American Explorer-Ethnographers
Algonquin and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, Gordon Sayre analyzes French and English accounts of Native Americans to reveal the rhetorical codes by which their cultures were represented and the influence that these images of Indians had on colonial and modern American society. By emphasizing the work of Pierre Francois-Xavier Charlevoix, Joseph-Francois Lafitau, and Baron de Lahontan, among others, Sayre highlights the important contribution that French explorers and ethnographers made to colonial literature
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 384 pages)
ISBN:0585027552
080786434X
9780585027555
9780807864340

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