Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature - Brossura

Sayre, Gordon M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080784652X ISBN 13: 9780807846520

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Algonquian 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 Franaois-Xavier Charlevoix, Joseph-Franaois Lafitau, and Baron de Lahontan, among others, Sayre highlights the important contribution that French explorers and ethnographers made to colonial literature. Sayre's interdisciplinary approach draws on anthropology, cultural studies, and literary methodologies. He cautions against dismissing these colonial texts as purveyors of ethnocentric stereotypes, asserting that they offer insights into Native American cultures. Furthermore, early accounts of American Indians reveal Europeans' serious examination of their own customs and values: Sayre demonstrates how encounters with natives' wampum belts, tattoos, and pelt garments, for example, forced colonists to question the nature of money, writing, and clothing; and how the Indians' techniques of warfare and practice of adopting prisoners led to new concepts of cultural identity and inspired key themes in the European enlightenment and American individualism.

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Book by Sayre Gordon M

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080784652X
• ISBN 13: 9780807846520
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 414
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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