Thoreau often wished to create the impression that he spent more time in the woods than in the library, and perhaps it is because the opposite was true that he characterizes these obscure works as a forest, a surrogate wilderness.
An edition of Les sauvages américains
(1997)
Les Sauvages Am?ricains
Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
by Gordon M. Sayre
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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 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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History and criticism, Historiography, French-Canadian literature, Indians of North America, Intellectual life, American literature, French-American literature, Colonies in literature, Canadian literature, Indians in literature, Indians of North America in literature, American literature, history and criticism, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, French-canadian literature, history and criticism, Canadian literature, history and criticism, French American literature, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Indiens d'Amérique, Historiographie, Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature, Littérature canadienne-française, Littérature américaine (française), Littérature canadienne, Colonies dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Colonial period, Amerikaans, Letterkunde, Frans, Indianen, English, Languages & LiteraturesPlaces
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