Publication details
Indiáni a kolonisté : o jedné z identitárních představ indiána v quebecké literatuře
| Title in English | Indians and colonists : one of the identitarian representations of the Indian in Quebec literature |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Literatura jako svědectví paměti |
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| Keywords | French-Canadian and Quebec literature; identity image of the Indian; authenticating function |
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| Description | The discovery of the Americas brought new impulses not only to European thought but also to the literatures that emerged on the new continent. This paper traces one thread of the image of the Indian in French-Canadian and Quebec literature. The aim is to show the transformation of an originally utilitarian ideologizing colonial discourse into an idea that can be called authentifying: it consists in the fact that, by accepting the values of the other, the colonist seeks and affirms the acceptance of himself by the native inhabitant of the continent. The sources of evidence will lead from Jacques Cartier, Marc Lescarbot and Jesuits’ Relations to Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Nicolas Jérémie. The authenticating image of the Indian then takes on new forms in the 19th and 20th centuries in the works of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, Louis Honoré Fréchette, Jacques Ferron and Leonard Cohen. |