Les Sauvages Américains Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature |
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| Author:
| Sayre, Gordon M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4652-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1997 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, this text 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.
Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, this text 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.