Black Robe (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Moore
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Race, Nature, Missions or missionaries, Native Americans or American Indians, Seventeenth century, Christianity, Canada or Canadians, Adventure, Martyrs or martyrdom, Priests, Jesuits, Exploration or explorers, Wildlife
- Locales: Quebec, Canada
In a radical departure from earlier fictions, Moore situated this novel in the Quebec province of Canada in 1635, yet the novel features another portrait of a character struggling with a lonely passion. The novel centers on Father Laforgue, a young French Jesuit, who approaches missionary work among the “Savages” (the European name for the native inhabitants) of North America with overwhelming zeal.
As in the case of each of Moore's historical novels, Laforgue is modeled after an actual figure, Father Noel Chabanel, though Laforgue becomes a vehicle for Moore to explore...
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