Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
This paper analyzes the representation of North-American fictional worlds in the French western novel. With writers such as Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), the subgenre was one of the most common adventure serials between 1850 and 1880. The analysis deals with the heroism embodied by the recurring figur...
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doaj-b7883328087743b3b406de92ecff03e12021-09-02T17:24:59ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines1765-27662019-05-01210.4000/transatlantica.10688Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)Luca Di GregorioThis paper analyzes the representation of North-American fictional worlds in the French western novel. With writers such as Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), the subgenre was one of the most common adventure serials between 1850 and 1880. The analysis deals with the heroism embodied by the recurring figure of the coureur des bois, a French variety of mountain man who is the main protagonist of these novels. I question the relationship between that character and the fictional West. Through a historical and comparative approach, the coureurs des bois’ adventure will be compared with the classical language of the Western (deciphering vs. settlement, walking vs. mounting, tracking vs. invasion and conquest) so as to insist on the alternative value brought by the adventurous “sauvagisme” (mainly European) in contrast with pioneers/settlers stories which were inspired, during the same period, by the rhetorics of the manifest destiny and the frontier.http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10688trappermountain manfrontierAmerican Westwesternclues |
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Luca Di Gregorio Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines trapper mountain man frontier American West western clues |
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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les fils de bas-de-cuir. sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880) |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines |
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Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines |
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1765-2766 |
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This paper analyzes the representation of North-American fictional worlds in the French western novel. With writers such as Gustave Aimard (1818-1883), the subgenre was one of the most common adventure serials between 1850 and 1880. The analysis deals with the heroism embodied by the recurring figure of the coureur des bois, a French variety of mountain man who is the main protagonist of these novels. I question the relationship between that character and the fictional West. Through a historical and comparative approach, the coureurs des bois’ adventure will be compared with the classical language of the Western (deciphering vs. settlement, walking vs. mounting, tracking vs. invasion and conquest) so as to insist on the alternative value brought by the adventurous “sauvagisme” (mainly European) in contrast with pioneers/settlers stories which were inspired, during the same period, by the rhetorics of the manifest destiny and the frontier. |
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trapper mountain man frontier American West western clues |
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http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10688 |
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