Life Among the Qallunaat - Couverture souple

Freeman, Mini Aodla

 
9780887557750: Life Among the Qallunaat
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0887557759 ISBN 13 : 9780887557750
Editeur : University of Manitoba Press, 2015

Synopsis

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds and ways of understanding. It also provides a clear-eyed record of the changes that swept through Inuit communities in the 1940s and 1950s.

Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 on Cape Hope Island in James Bay. At the age of sixteen, she began nurse's training at Ste. Therese School in Fort George, Quebec, and in 1957 she moved to Ottawa to work as a translator for the then Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. Her memoir, Life Among the Qallunaat, was published in 1978 and has been translated into French, German, and Greenlandic.

Life Among the Qallunaat is the third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This reissue of Mini Aodla Freeman's path-breaking work includes new material, an interview with the author, and an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning.

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À propos des auteurs

Mini Aodla Freeman is an author, playwright, and translator born on Cape Hope Island in James Bay, Nunavut.



Keavy Martin is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

Julie Rak is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

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Éditeur
University of Manitoba Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0887557759
ISBN 13 
9780887557750
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Éditeur
Rak Julie
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0888301642 ISBN 13 :  9780888301642
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