Sanaaq : an Inuit novel /
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Author / Creator: | Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk. |
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Uniform title: | Sanaaq. English |
Imprint: | Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2014] |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages .). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary studies on the North ; 4 Contemporary studies on the North ; 4. |
Subject: | Inuit literature -- Canada -- Translations into English. Canadian literature -- Inuit authors. Eskimo literature. Novels. Novels. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219002 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.