"le chant de hiawatha" : temoignage d'une civilisation
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Abstract EN:
This thesis analyzes the merits of the long poem about american indians written by henry wadsworth longfellow from an interdisciplinary approach. It conducts an in-depth reading of "the song of hiawatha" in order to prove how the cultural and historic details included by longfellow in his synthesis of ojibwa folklore enable one to study key points of native american civilization through the work. It suggests therefore that the poem is a testimony, a sincere attempt to describe the indian spirit and to show the cultural evolution of the race.
Abstract FR:
Cette these analyse les merites du long poeme sur les amerindiens de henry wadsworth longfellow dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire. Elle fait une lecture approfondie du "chant de hiawatha" pour montrer comment on peut se livrer a une etude des traits essentiels de la civilisation amerindienne a partir des reperes culturo-historiques incorpores par longfellow dans sa synthese du folklore ojibwa. Elle propose que le poeme est un temoignage, une tentative sincere de saisir l'esprit de la nature indienne et de representer l'evolution culturelle de la race.