Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature: Connecting Worlds in the Wilds

This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictions of these men of European origin reveal the dominant culture s changing attitudes toward Amerindians and land use, exposing each period s problematic behavior vis-a-vis different cultures and the environment and the intercultural connections and business relationships that point to the way forward."