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Les sauvages américains : representations of Native Americans in French and English colonial literature

Author: Gordon M Sayre
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sayre, Gordon M. (Gordon Mitchell), 1964-
Sauvages américains.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997
(OCoLC)605042582
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gordon M Sayre
ISBN: 0807823465 9780807823460 080784652X 9780807846520
OCLC Number: 35770827
Description: xxii, 384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 colonist --
ch. 6. War, captivity, adoption, and torture --
Epilogue. Borders: Niagara, 1763 --
Biographical dictionary of colonial American explorer-ethnographers.
Responsibility: Gordon M. Sayre.

Abstract:

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.

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