Argimou: A Legend of the Micmac

by Douglas S. Huyghue, Eugène, S. Douglass S. Huyghue

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue's Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century Fort Beaus jour and the expulsion of the Acadians. Its integration of the untamed New Brunswick landscape into the narrative, including a dramatic finale that takes place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771122471
• ISBN13: 9781771122474
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.0"