Contes Américains

By (author) Jean-François de Saint-Lambert Edited by Roger Little

Paperback - £20.00

Publication date:

01 August 1997

Publisher

University of Exeter Press

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9780859895446


These three tales, hailed by Diderot among others, but unpublished for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in the New World, either among native Americans (Abenakis, Iroquois) or runaway slaves in Jamaica befriended by Quakers. They argue powerfully for a reassessment of the philosophe Saint-Lambert, since they represent a significant contribution to the anti-slavery debate of the time and to a consideration of cultural relativity, revitalised by recent postcolonial discourses.



This title is Volume 99 in the series Exeter French Texts/Textes littéraires. It includes an introduction, select bibliography and essential notes, all in French.





'A worthwhile addition to this useful series.' (Modern Language Review, Issue 95 no. 2, 2000)