- Canada, Romans, Inuit, Inuit literature
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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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval, Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit, University of Manitoba Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- iku, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780887557484
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**Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk** CM was a Canadian Inuk writer. She was most noted for Sanaaq, one of the first Inuktitut language novels; although written earlier, it was published later than Markoosie Patsauq's Harpoon of the Hunter.
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