Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature

by Gordon M. Sayre

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784652X
• ISBN13: 9780807846520
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"