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Author Sayre, Gordon M. (Gordon Mitchell), 1964-

Title Les sauvages américains : representations of Native Americans in French and English colonial literature / Gordon M. Sayre
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 384 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index
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Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
Indians of North America -- Historiography.
Indians in literature.
French-Canadian literature -- History and criticism
French American literature -- History and criticism
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Colonies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Colonial period
Canadian literature
Colonies in literature
French American literature
French-Canadian literature
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Historiography
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Frans.
Indianen.
English.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96036993
ISBN 0585027552
9780585027555
080786434X
9780807864340