Add to ORKGThe study of Aboriginal literature often seems to be the most virtuous of decolonizing projects, as it promotes and honours some of the most marginalized voices. Both the call for greater recognition for Inuit writer Salome Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk's novel Sanaaq (1984) and the process whereby it has been excluded demonstrate the ongoing semi-colonial biases and expectations of literary studies in Canada. Canonizing Indigenous novels risks perpetuating the assimilative history of the Canadian education system in its demands that Indigenous literature appear in only the most familiar (or European) of forms. Anglophone institutions should welcome Mitiarjuk's work into the curriculum – not as evidence of the "maturity" of the Inuit literary traditi...
In our society difference is the antecedent of division. That formula has underpinned the provincial...
Written through a cultural lens, my thesis is a fictionalized account in the form of a novel of a wh...
As the Arctic “opens up” to exploration and economic development, a new stage in colonization looms....
Mitiarjuk, who has been called the “accidental Inuit novelist” (Martin, 2014), began writing ...
Prior to contact with European culture, Eskimos in the circumpolar world had a highly developed oral...
This thesis considers questioning of rigid conceptions of identity with regards the parallel and int...
The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and...
First Nations, Metis and Inuit writers must, in many respects, be the yard-stick against which the r...
This article examines creative writing, publishing, and empowerment of Inuit adult learners in Baker...
This thesis considers the critical implications of a cross-cultural reading of First Nations women’s...
This thesis examines narratives told about language loss in the Inuit territory of Nunatsiavut in No...
Nunavut is important to indigenous peoples everywhere. Inuit hunter-gatherers living scattered over ...
This project is both a creative and critical foray into Inuit mythology. The Critical Preface unpack...
The research describes the experience of a southern white teacher who lived and worked in a remote c...
This study attempts to reach toward a critical understanding of selected contemporary Native Canadia...
In our society difference is the antecedent of division. That formula has underpinned the provincial...
Written through a cultural lens, my thesis is a fictionalized account in the form of a novel of a wh...
As the Arctic “opens up” to exploration and economic development, a new stage in colonization looms....
Mitiarjuk, who has been called the “accidental Inuit novelist” (Martin, 2014), began writing ...
Prior to contact with European culture, Eskimos in the circumpolar world had a highly developed oral...
This thesis considers questioning of rigid conceptions of identity with regards the parallel and int...
The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and...
First Nations, Metis and Inuit writers must, in many respects, be the yard-stick against which the r...
This article examines creative writing, publishing, and empowerment of Inuit adult learners in Baker...
This thesis considers the critical implications of a cross-cultural reading of First Nations women’s...
This thesis examines narratives told about language loss in the Inuit territory of Nunatsiavut in No...
Nunavut is important to indigenous peoples everywhere. Inuit hunter-gatherers living scattered over ...
This project is both a creative and critical foray into Inuit mythology. The Critical Preface unpack...
The research describes the experience of a southern white teacher who lived and worked in a remote c...
This study attempts to reach toward a critical understanding of selected contemporary Native Canadia...
In our society difference is the antecedent of division. That formula has underpinned the provincial...
Written through a cultural lens, my thesis is a fictionalized account in the form of a novel of a wh...
As the Arctic “opens up” to exploration and economic development, a new stage in colonization looms....