Backwoodsmen As Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature - Connecting Worlds in the Wilds

Informationen zum Autor By Anne Rehill Klappentext This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictions of these men of European origin reveal the dominant culture's changing attitudes toward Amerindians and land use, exposing each period's problematic behavior vis-à-vis different cultures and the environment and the intercultural connections and business relationships that point to the way forward. Zusammenfassung This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depict... Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction and Historical Context: Coureurs de Bois and VoyageursChapter 2: Theoretical Approach: Movements through Time and Place on EarthChapter 3: Construction of and Constructions in Taché's Forestiers et voyageursChapter 4: Controlling and Exploiting Wildness in Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine and Léo-Paul Desrosiers' Les Engagés du Grand Portage Chapter 5: Coureuses and Coureurs de Bois: A People's Becoming in Antonine Maillet's Pélagie-la-charretteChapter 6: Conclusions: Motifs of Capitalist Expansion, Socialist Cooperation, and Intercultural Connections

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• Authors: Anne Rehill, Rehill Anne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781498531108
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3110-8
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, Canada, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Literary studies: general, Literary theory