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Amerindian Origins
Author_Brian Brazeau
Bel Oeil
Ben Israel
Car Son
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colonial encounters
Coureur De Bois
cultural self-representation
De La Langue
De La Mothe Le Vayer
De Laffemas
Early Modern French Literature
early modern travel literature
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French colonial discourse analysis
French-Canadian identity
Gabriel Sagard
Histoire De La Nouvelle France
Huron Language
indigenous contact narratives
Jean Le Maire De Belges
Jesuit missionary accounts
La Nouvelle France
Le Diable
Marc Lescarbot
Master Trimmer
Mercantile Colonialism
Parole De Dieu
Recherches De La France
Riches En
Superior Christianity
Unifying Liquid
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754661122
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvement in Northeastern America through readings of key texts, principally travel and missionary accounts. Among the works examined are travel writings by Marc Lescarbot (Histoire de la Nouvelle-France) and Samuel de Champlain (Voyages), and missionary works by Gabriel Sagard (Dictionnaire de la Langue Huronne, Histoire du Canada), Jean de Brébeuf, and Paul le Jeune (early Relations de Jésuites). Through a careful examination of these texts, the author discerns a French "rewriting of the self" in relation to the American other, represented by both land and people. America, Brazeau argues, allowed a consolidation of past markers of identity, and forced a radical rereading of others, due to the difficulties presented by the Canadian wilderness and its natives. Writing a New France, 1604-1632 sheds fresh light on a significant moment in French colonial history while providing an innovative contribution to the understanding of early modern French identity and cultural contact.
Brian Brazeau is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris, France.
