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Contes Americains - de Saint-Lambert, Jean-Francois, and Little, Roger (Editor)
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These three tales, hailed by Diderot among others, but unpublished for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in the New World, either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, ...

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Contes Americains 1997, University of Exeter Press, Exeter

ISBN-13: 9780859895446

French

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