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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sayre, Gordon M. (Gordon Mitchell), 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.