Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel (Contemporary Studies on the North) by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk,Bernard Saladin d'Anglure,Peter Frost

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By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk,Bernard Saladin d'Anglure,Peter Frost

Sanaaq is an intimate tale of an Inuit family members negotiating the alterations introduced into their neighborhood by means of the arrival of the qallunaat, the white humans, within the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in forty eight episodes, it recounts the way of life of Sanaaq, a powerful and outspoken younger widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic group in northern Quebec. right here they stay their lives looking seal, repairing their kayak, and accumulating mussels lower than blue sea ice sooner than the tide is available in. those are traditional striking lives: marriages are made and unmade, young ones are born and named, violence seems within the kind of a apprehensive husband or a hungry polar endure. the following the spirit international is alive and family with non-humans are by no means taken flippantly. And lower than all of it, the starting to be intrusion of the qallunaat and the conflict for souls among the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to without end switch the lifestyle of Sanaaq and her younger family.

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