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Canadian Inuit literature : the development of a tradition
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- Summary
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Documents and briefly examines how Canada's Inuit moved from an oral tradition of literature in Inuktitut to a written tradition in their second language, English.
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- Creator
- Robin McGrath
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Ottawa, Ont.] : National Museums of Canada, 1984
- Physical Details
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- x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 1772822574, 9781772822571
- OCLC
- ocn603873307, on1132688408, ocm11218609
- "A Diamond Jenness memorial volume."
- Abstract and introduction in French.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-211).
- European contact as it affected literacy -- The movement from an oral to a written tradition -- Early Inuktitut publications -- Poetry in the oral tradition -- Poetry in the written tradition -- Prose in the oral tradition -- Prose in the written tradition -- Themes and structures in the contemporary Inuit literary tradition -- Eskimo language and dialect maps -- Inuktitut writing systems-- Inuit periodicals