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Sanaaq : An Inuit Novel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Studies on the North SeriesPublisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780887554476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: SanaaqLOC classification:
  • PM55.Z5.N37 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Form and Style -- Content and Implicit Surrounding Details -- Historical and Cultural Context -- Characters -- 1: Gathering Dwarf Birch -- 2: Irsutualuk and the Fishing Day That Wasn't -- 3: A Day in the Tent -- 4: Fishing on the Foreshore -- 5: Moving Day and Sanaaq's Remarriage -- 6: A Qajaq for Qalingu -- 7: Jiimialuk Loses an Eye -- 8: The First Qallunaat Arrive -- 9: Qalingu Tries out the Qajaq -- 10: A Daughter Is Adopted -- 11: An Unsuccessful Hunt in the Qajaq -- 12: Sanaaq Mee ts a Polar Bear -- 13: Arnatuinnaq Catches Her First Gull -- 14: From Tent to Igloo -- 15: Jiimialuk's Fatal Accident -- 16: A Harsh Winter in the Igloo -- 17: Sanaaq Gives Birth to a Son -- 18: Trip Inland -- 19: Hunters Caught in a Blizzard -- 20: Spring Hunting on the Sinaa -- 21: Mussel Fishing under the Ice -- 22: Spring Hunt -- 23: Scenes of Summer Life -- 24: The Legend of Lumaajuq -- 25: The First Catholic Missionaries -- 26: A Children's Quarrel -- 27: A Community Feast of Boiled Meat -- 28: Spring Hunting, Fishing, and Gathe ring -- 29: Hunters Adrift on the Ice -- 30: Inuit Chewing Gum -- 31: Learning how to Sew and the Collapse of the Igloo -- 32: Fishing for Iqaluk -- 33: Qalingu Makes a Puurtaq and Qumaq Her First Boots -- 34: Gathering Eggs -- 35: Spring Hunt on the Edge of the Ice -- 36: A Child's Carelessness -- 37: A Household Quarrel -- 38: Sanaaq's Flight -- 39: Conjugal Violence -- 40: A Sorrowful Qalingu -- 41: Sanaaq's Return to Hospital -- 42: Ritual Feast for the First Kill -- 43: Qalingu Leaves to Work among the Qallunaat -- 44: A Successful Day Fishing for Arctic Char -- 45: The First Medical Examination -- 46: Birth, Naming, and Conversion -- 47: A Broken Heart and Possession -- 48: Confession and Cure -- Glossary -- Additional Reading -- Selected Works by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk.
Selected Works by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure on Inuit -- Critical Writing on Inuit Literature.
Summary: The first novel written in Inuttitut syllabics, Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Form and Style -- Content and Implicit Surrounding Details -- Historical and Cultural Context -- Characters -- 1: Gathering Dwarf Birch -- 2: Irsutualuk and the Fishing Day That Wasn't -- 3: A Day in the Tent -- 4: Fishing on the Foreshore -- 5: Moving Day and Sanaaq's Remarriage -- 6: A Qajaq for Qalingu -- 7: Jiimialuk Loses an Eye -- 8: The First Qallunaat Arrive -- 9: Qalingu Tries out the Qajaq -- 10: A Daughter Is Adopted -- 11: An Unsuccessful Hunt in the Qajaq -- 12: Sanaaq Mee ts a Polar Bear -- 13: Arnatuinnaq Catches Her First Gull -- 14: From Tent to Igloo -- 15: Jiimialuk's Fatal Accident -- 16: A Harsh Winter in the Igloo -- 17: Sanaaq Gives Birth to a Son -- 18: Trip Inland -- 19: Hunters Caught in a Blizzard -- 20: Spring Hunting on the Sinaa -- 21: Mussel Fishing under the Ice -- 22: Spring Hunt -- 23: Scenes of Summer Life -- 24: The Legend of Lumaajuq -- 25: The First Catholic Missionaries -- 26: A Children's Quarrel -- 27: A Community Feast of Boiled Meat -- 28: Spring Hunting, Fishing, and Gathe ring -- 29: Hunters Adrift on the Ice -- 30: Inuit Chewing Gum -- 31: Learning how to Sew and the Collapse of the Igloo -- 32: Fishing for Iqaluk -- 33: Qalingu Makes a Puurtaq and Qumaq Her First Boots -- 34: Gathering Eggs -- 35: Spring Hunt on the Edge of the Ice -- 36: A Child's Carelessness -- 37: A Household Quarrel -- 38: Sanaaq's Flight -- 39: Conjugal Violence -- 40: A Sorrowful Qalingu -- 41: Sanaaq's Return to Hospital -- 42: Ritual Feast for the First Kill -- 43: Qalingu Leaves to Work among the Qallunaat -- 44: A Successful Day Fishing for Arctic Char -- 45: The First Medical Examination -- 46: Birth, Naming, and Conversion -- 47: A Broken Heart and Possession -- 48: Confession and Cure -- Glossary -- Additional Reading -- Selected Works by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk.

Selected Works by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure on Inuit -- Critical Writing on Inuit Literature.

The first novel written in Inuttitut syllabics, Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.

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