{"product_id":"perceived-in-print-sharon-v-salinger-9780813955209","title":"Perceived in Print: Indigenous American and French Ideas of the Other","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling new analysis of the insights and the illusions embedded in writings from the New World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerceived in Print\u003c\/i\u003e uses the published writings of adventurers and churchmen in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to unlock the impressions Americans and French expressed about each other--what people from a diverse range of Indigenous cultures thought about the French and how the French perceived the inhabitants of these New Lands. Straddling history and literary studies, Sharon Salinger peels away how European authors cast the exchanges to reveal a \"dialogue between cultures.\" What emerges are two groups of equal standing, motivated by different cultural impulses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Salinger shows, French assessments were often contradictory: the Natives were cannibals, but also noble; they were without religion but also devil worshipers. At the same time, Indigenous Americans hurled a range of critiques toward the French, from mocking the absurdity of French clothing to articulately rejecting assimilation and Christianity, even with its promise of heaven. In the end, Salinger reveals a cultural dissonance that portended the failure of the French ambition to transform the Americas into a \"New France.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon V. Salinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813955203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813955209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sharon V. Salinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460250054911,"sku":"9780813955209","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c6d552c-8739-4afd-9355-5e067b2e3d3c.jpg?v=1777413521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perceived-in-print-sharon-v-salinger-9780813955209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}