“My tongue, my own thing”: Reading Sanaaq

• Published in: TTR
• Main Author: Henitiuk, Valerie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association canadienne de traductologie 2016
• Subjects: translation; Inuit; Mitiarjuk; Sanaaq; gender; traduction; genre; Découverte; Strauss; inuit; inuite; inuktitut
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1051012ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1051012ar

Mitiarjuk, who has been called the “accidental Inuit novelist” (Martin, 2014), began writing Sanaaq in the mid-1950s and was “discovered” in the late 1960s by a doctoral student of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure took up this text as his anthropology thesis topic, guided its completio...