02390nam 2200457 450 991080980830332120170920003608.01-4985-3111-3(CKB)3710000000769485(EBL)4605632(OCoLC)954000251(MiAaPQ)EBC4605632(EXLCZ)99371000000076948520160821h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBackwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature connecting worlds in the wilds /Annie RehillLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2016.©20161 online resource (231 p.)After the Empire : The Francophone World and Postcolonial FranceDescription based upon print version of record.1-4985-3110-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction and Historical Context; 2 Theoretical Approach; 3 Construction of and Constructions in Taché's Forestiers et voyageurs; 4 Controlling and Exploiting Wildness in Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine and Léo-Paul Desrosiers' Les Engagés du Grand Portage; 5 Coureuses and Coureurs de Bois; 6 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorThis 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.After the empire.French-Canadian literatureFrench-Canadian literature.840Rehill Annie1668561MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809808303321Backwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature4029242UNINA