Gordon M Sayre: 2 books
Les Sauvages Américains
Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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...
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze...