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Sanaaq : an Inuit novel / by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk ; transliterated and translated from Inuktitut to French by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, translated from French by Peter Frost.

by Nappaaluk, Salomé Mitiarjuk.

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University of Manitoba Press, c2014.

Inuit -- Fiction.

Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Inuit -- Québec (Province) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

Contemporary studies on the North ; 4.

9780887557484 (trade pbk.)

Sanaaq. Enlish English

xviii, 227 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: Saladin, d'Anglure, Bernard, 1936-. Sanaaq.

Transliterated and translated from Inuktitut to French ; then French to English.

Co-published by: Avataq Cultural Institute.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gathering dwarf birch -- Irsutualuk and the fishing day that wasn't -- A day in the tent -- Fishing on the foreshore -- Moving day and Sanaaq's remarriage -- A Qajaq for Qalingu -- Jiimialuk loses and eye -- The first Qallunaat arrive -- Qalingu tries out the Qajaq -- A daughter is adopted -- An unsuccessful hunt in the Qajaq -- Sanaaq meets a polar bear -- Arnatuinnaq catches her first gull -- From tent to igloo -- Jiimialuk's fatal accident -- A harsh winter in the igloo -- Sanaaq gives birth to a son -- Trip inland -- Hunters caught in a blizzard -- Spring hunting on the Sinaa -- Mussel fishing under the ice -- Spring hunt -- Scenes of summer life -- The legend of Lumaajuq -- The first Catholic missionaries -- A children's quarrel -- A community feast of boiled meat -- Spring hunting, fishing, and gathering -- Hunters adrift on the ice -- Inuit chewing gum -- Learning how to sew and the collapse of the igloo -- Fishing for Iqaluk -- Qalingu makes a Puurtaq and Qumag her first boots -- Gathering eggs -- Spring hunt on the edge of the ice -- A child's carelessness -- A household quarrel -- Sanaaq's flight -- Conjugal violence -- A sorrowful Qalingu -- Sanaaq's return to hospital -- Ritual feast for the first kill -- Qalingu leaves to work among the Qallunaat -- A successful day fishing for Arctic Char -- The first medical examination -- Birth, naming, and conversion -- A broken heart and possession -- Confession and cure.

"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. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. These are ordinary extraordinary lives: marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

Linked stories.

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

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