Quel récit de filiation pour les Inuits canadiens?
What Filiation Narrative for Canadian Inuit?
Author(s): Eva Voldřichová BeránkováSubject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Inuit novel; French literature; filiation narratives; memory; third sex;
Summary/Abstract: The rise of filiation narratives, observed in France since the end of the 1970s and confirmed by the publication of La Place (1983) and Vies minuscules (1984), is contemporary with the “symbolic birth” of French- or English-speaking Inuit literature in Canada. Through the analysis of certain “founding works” of the Inuit novel (namely Harpoon of the Hunter by Markoosie Patsauq and Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk), the article expands on its thematic, generic and axiological similarities as well as its differences compared to the European model. It also outlines the subsequent evolution of the genre through new generations of Inuit writers (Alice Masak French, Mini Aodla Freeman, Norma Dunning, Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak or Aviaq Johnston).
Journal: Cahiers ERTA
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 73-85
- Page Count: 13
- Language: French
