Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk - Sanaaq - An Inuit Novel

utsulutuqlittle bone, figurine of a vulva

Uu!onomatopoeia: sound of satisfaction with food being eaten

Uugaqdog’s name, in the legend of Luuumaajuq

uujuq, pl. uujuitboiled meat

Uujun ukuainterjectional phrase: “Here are some pieces of boiled meat”

Uumm!also see umm!and mmm!Onomatopoeia: sound of satisfaction after eating food

uummatit, pl. of uummatiheart

Uuppaa!interjection that accompanies effort of lifting, carrying, or pulling something heavy

uuttuqseal stretched out on an ice floe and basking in the sun

SELECTED WORKS BY MITIARJUK NAPPAALUK

Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk. Qimminuulingajut ilumiutartangit . Montreal: Kativik School Board, n.d.

— —. Qupirruit . Montreal: Kativik School Board, 1987

— —. Sanaakkut Piusiviningita unikkausinnguangat . Edited by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. Inuksiutiit Allaniagait, no. 4. Quebec City: Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit, 1984.

— —. Sanaaq . Transliterated and translated from Inuktitut by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. Montreal: Stanké, 2002.

— —. Tarrkii piniarningillu . Montreal: Kativik School Board, 1997.

— —. Tininnimiutaait . Montreal: Kativik School Board, n.d.

— —. Silaup piusingit inuit nunangani . Montreal: Kativik School Board, n.d.

SELECTED WORKS BY BERNARD SALADIN D’ANGLURE ON INUIT

Prof. Bernard Saladin d’Anglure has published extensively on Inuit in French. His work is entirely relevant for understanding the ethnographic details in the text of Sanaaq . Fortunately for the monolingual reader, some of his work has been published in English. This list contains articles available in English along with his major books in French.

Aupilaarjuk, Mariano, Tulimaaq Aupilaarjuk, Lucassie Nutaraaluk, Rose Iqallijuq, Johanasi Ujarak, Isidore Ijituuq, and Michel Kupaaq. Interviewing Inuit Elders 4: Cosmology and Shamanism . Under the direction of Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, 2001.

Saladin d’Anglure, Bernard. “Inuit of Quebec.” In Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic , edited by David Damas, 476–507. Vol. 5. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984.

— —. “Contemporary Inuit of Quebec.” In Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic, edited by David Damas, 683–88. Vol. 5. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984.

— —. “Nanook, Super-Male: The Polar Bear in the Imaginary Space and Social Time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic.” In Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World , edited by Roy Willis, 178–95. London: Routledge, 1990.

— —. “The Mythology of the Inuit of the Central Arctic.” In Mythologies , edited by Yves Bonnefoy, 25–32. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

— —. “The Shaman’s Share or Inuit Sexual Communism in the Canadian Central Arctic.” Anthropologica 35 (1993): 59–103.

— —. “From Foetus to Shaman: The Construction of an Inuit Third Sex.” In Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief among North American Indians and Inuit , edited by Antonia C. Mills and Richard Slobodin, 82–106. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

— —. “Brother Moon, Sister Sun, and the Direction of the World: From Arctic Cosmography to Inuit Cosmology.” In Circumpolar Religion and Ecology: An Anthropology of the North , edited by Takashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada, 187–212. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.

— —. “Shamanism.” In Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology , edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer, 504–8. London: Routledge, 1996.

— —. “Erotic Dreams, Mystical Kinship and Shamanism.” North Atlantic Studies 4, 1 and 2 (2001): 5–12.

— —. “An Ethnographic Commentary: The Legend of Atanarjuat.” In Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner , edited by Paul Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, and Norman Cohn, 196–208. Montreal: Coach House Books and Isuma Publishing, 2002.

— —. “Inuit and Shamanism.” In Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner , edited by Paul Angilirq, Zacharias Kunuk, Herve Paniaq, Pauloosie Qulitalik, and Norman Cohn, 209–30. Montreal: Coach House Books and Isuma Publishing, 2002.

— —. “ Etre et Renaître Inuit: Homme, Femme Ou Chamane .” Paris: Gallimard, 2006.

— —. “The Construction of Shamanic Identity aong the Inuit of Nunavut and Nunavik.” In Aboriginality and Governance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective from Quebec , edited by Gordon Christie, 141–66. Penticton: Theytus Books, 2006.

— —. “The Inuit ‘Third Gender’.” In Aboriginality and Governance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective from Quebec , edited by Gordon Christie, 167–78. Penticton: Theytus Books, 2006.

— —. “The Whale Hunting among the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic.” In Aboriginality and Governance: A Multidisciplinary Perspective from Quebec , edited by Gordon Christie, 179–202. Penticton: Theytus Books, 2006.

Saladin d’Anglure, Bernard, and Colin Anderson. “The ‘Third Gender’ of the Inuit.” Diogenes 52, 4 (2005): 134–44.

Saladin d’Anglure, Bernard, Richard Baillargeon, Jimmy Innaarulik Mark, and Louis-Jacques Dorais. La Parole Changée En Pierre: Vie Et Oeuvre De Davidialuk Alasuaq, Artiste Inuit Du Québec Arctique , Les Cahiers Du Patrimoine 11. Québec: Governement du Québec, Minstere des Affaires culturelles, Direction generale du patrimoine, 1977.

Saladin d’Anglure, Bernard, and Igloolik Isuma Productions. Au Pays Des Inuit: Un Film, Un Peuple, Une Légende . Montpellier: Indigène éditions, 2002.

CRITICAL WRITING ON INUIT LITERATURE

Carpenter, Mary. “Stories: ‘Skeleton Woman,’ ‘Woman of the Sea.’” In Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative , edited by John Moss, 225–30. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1997.

Coates, Corey. “The First Inuit Autobiography: Text and Context(s).” The Northern Review 28 (2008): 261–70.

Gatti, Maurizio, ed. Littérature amérindienne du Québec: écrits de la langue française. Montreal: Hurtubise, 2004.

Gedalof [McGrath], Robin. Paper Stays Put: A Collection of Inuit Writing . Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1986.

Kennedy, Michael P.J. “Inuit Literature in English: A Chronological Survey.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 13, 1 (1993): 31–41.

— —. “Southern Exposure: Belated Recognition of a Significant Inuk Writer Artist.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 15, 2 (1995): 347–61.

— —. “The Sea Goddess Sedna: An Enduring Pan-Arctic Legend from Traditional Orature to the New Narratives of the Late Twentieth Century.” In Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic Narrative , edited by John Moss, 211–24. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1997.

Martin, Keavy. “Arctic Solitude: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk’s Sanaaq and the Politics of Translation in Inuit Literature.” Studies in Canadian Literature 35, 2 (2010): 13–29.

— —. Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature . Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2012.

McGrath, Robin. “Canadian Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition.” Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man, 1984.