The Mythic Indian
eBook - ePub

The Mythic Indian

The Native in French and Québécois Cultural Imaginaries

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Mythic Indian

The Native in French and Québécois Cultural Imaginaries

About this book

The Mythic Indian: The Native in French and Québécois Cultural Imaginaries charts a genealogy of French and Québécois visions of the Amerindian.

Tracing an evolution of paradigms from the sixteenth century to present, it examines how the myths of the Noble, Ignoble, and Ecological Savage as well as the Vanishing Indian and Going Native inform a variety of discourses and ways of thinking about Amerindian cultures. By analyzing mythic depictions of the Native Figure that originate at first contacts, this book demonstrates that an inextricable link exists between discourses as disparate as literature and science.

This book will be of interest to scholars in French Studies, Francophone Studies, Indigenous Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Social Sciences, and Literary Studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction: Mythmaking: How the West (Was) “Won”?
  8. 1 Mythic Origins and the Origins of Myth
  9. 2 Voltaire, La Condamine, and Buffon: Fabricating Fact and (Science) Fiction
  10. 3 The Vanishing Indian: Manifest and Imperial Destinies
  11. 4 Going Native: The Myth of Being Indian
  12. 5 Voices in Francophone Indigenous Literature: A History and Future of Native American Literature
  13. Index