“My tongue, my own thing”: Reading Sanaaq

• Published in: TTR
• Main Author: Valerie Henitiuk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Consortium Erudit 2018
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; translation; Inuit; Mitiarjuk; Sanaaq; gender; traduction; genre; litt; lang; Découverte; Strauss; inuit; inuite; inuktitut
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ttr/2016-v29-n2-ttr03940/1051012ar.pdf; https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ttr/2016-v29-n2-ttr03940/1051012ar.pdf; https://doi.org/10.7202/1051012ar; https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ttr/2016-v29-n2-ttr03940/1051012ar/; https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6684436; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1051012ar; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2892189328

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...