Encounters with Alterity in Early Modern French Travel Literature

48:1 (2008) Spring
Editor(s): Scott Juall

Table of Contents

• (Re)Writing Self and Other in Early Modern French Travel Literature
• Author(s): Scott Juall
• Pages: 1 - 4

• Oicoe-gatou: l'altérité linguistique chez Breydenback et Léry
• Author(s): Phillip John Usher
• Pages: 5 - 17

• Nicolas de Nicolay's "Navigations" and the Domestic Politics of Travel Writing
• Author(s): Marcus Keller
• Pages: 18 - 31

• An Uncommon Map for a Common World: Hajji Ahmed's Cordiform Map of 1559
• Author(s): Pascale Barthe
• Pages: 32 - 44

• A Curious Case of Ethnographic Cleansing: The First French Interpretations of the Japanese, 1552-1555
• Author(s): Jeff Persels
• Pages: 45 - 57

• "Beaucoup plus barbares que les Sauvages mesmes": Cannibalism, Savagery, and Religious Alterity in Jean de Léry's "Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil" (1599-1600)
• Author(s): Scott Juall
• Pages: 58 - 71

• Is Purgatory Burning?: Opposing Viewpoints on Travel to Purgatory in Pierre Viret's "Alcumie du purgatoire"
• Author(s): Dolliann Margaret Hurtig
• Pages: 72 - 80

• Monstrous Alterity in Early Modern Travel Accounts: Lessons from the Ambiguous Medieval Discourse on Humanness
• Author(s): Lynn Ramey
• Pages: 81 - 95

• Loathsome Neighbors and Noble Savages: The 'monde inversé' of Antoine de Montchrétien
• Author(s): Charlotte C Wells
• Pages: 96 - 106

• Marc Lescarbot Reads Jacques Cartier: Colonial History in the Service of Propaganda
• Author(s): Carla Zecher
• Pages: 107 - 119

• God the Father or Mother Earth?: 'Nouvelle France' in Two Quebec Novels of the 1980s
• Author(s): Susan L Rosenstreich
• Pages: 120 - 130