title: French Renaissance travel accounts: images of sin, visions of the New World.
abstract: Accounts of French Renaissance travels to America reveal how Europeans described a newly discovered "Other," and, indirectly, the "Self." Guy Poirier analyzes in his article how the images of acts against nature and prodigies could, at the same time, be linked to a European "épistémè" and construct an ideological discourse of their own.
authors.affiliation: Department of French of Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Poirier
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history*; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000266:history*; D008297:Male; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D014195:Travel / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States