The Indian chief as tragic hero : native resistance and the literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
The leaders of anti-colonial wars of resistance - Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh and Cuauhtemoc - spread fear across the frontiers of North America. However, after their defeat, they became martyrs. Gordon Sayre analyses the tragedies and epics written aboutthese leaders and explores their own speeches and strategies
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2005