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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Main Author: Luca Di Gregorio
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Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2019-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10688
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-e88f9526e90642e9afcb6e2499f895652025-01-30T10:45:29ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662019-05-01210.4000/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.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10688westernfrontiertrappermountain manAmerican Westclues
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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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American West
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title Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
title_full Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
title_fullStr Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
title_full_unstemmed Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
title_short Les Fils de Bas-de-Cuir. Sauvagisme, franc trappeur et « lutte des traces » dans le roman d’aventures français (1850-1880)
title_sort les fils de bas de cuir sauvagisme franc trappeur et lutte des traces dans le roman d aventures francais 1850 1880
topic western
frontier
trapper
mountain man
American West
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url https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10688
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