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Author : Alootook Ipellie
Publisher : Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015043371890
20 short stories accompanied by pen and ink drawings interpreting the mythological and contemporary world of this Inuk artist/author.
Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 077352228X
In Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture Renée Hulan disputes the notion that the north is a source of distinct collective identity for Canadians. Through a synthesis of critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to northern subjects in literary studies, she challenges the epistemology used to support this idea. By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.
Author : Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:785829402
Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781480409149
This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly). “The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of Of Wolves and Men takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (The New York Times). Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us. Renowned environmentalist and author of Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey has called Arctic Dreams “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the New Yorker hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 0780729064
For better readers, an account of the history, ecology, and mystique of the arctic region.
Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613999266
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.
Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781926685731
Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Do Native people have less or more public hair? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this witty, thoughtful collection. Twelve important voices in the Native culture — including Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road, and Marissa Crazytrain, a descendant of Chief Sitting Bull — tackle a variety of previously taboo subjects with humor and insight. Noted comic writer and editor Drew Hayden Taylor wraps it up with an original contribution of his own.
Author : Mareike Neuhaus
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780889772335
Annotation A reading strategy for orality in North American Indigenous literatures that is grounded in Indigenous linquistic traditions.
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787352469
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Author : Caitlin Kittredge
Publisher : Ember
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385738323
Everything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. There is no Necrovirus. And Aoife isn't going to succomb to madness because of a latent strain--she will lose her faculties because she is allergic to iron. Aoife isn't human. She is a changeling--half human and half from the land of Thorn. And time is running out for her. When Aoife destroyed the Lovecraft engine, she released the monsters from the Thorn Lands into the Iron Lands and now she must find a way to seal the gates and reverse the destruction she's ravaged on the world that's about to poison her.
Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826157
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders' colleague and once a student of the mighty Dr Swenson, is their last hope. Compelled by the pleas of Anders's wife, who refuses to accept that her husband is not coming home, Marina leaves the snowy plains of Minnesota and retraces her friend's steps into the heart of the South American darkness, determined to track down Dr. Swenson and uncover the secrets being jealously guarded among the remotest tribes of the rainforest. What Marina does not yet know is that, in this ancient corner of the jungle, where the muddy waters and susurrating grasses hide countless unknown perils and temptations, she will face challenges beyond her wildest imagination. Marina is no longer the student, but only time will tell if she has learnt enough.
Author : Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm,Josie Douglas
Publisher : Wiarton, Ont. : Kegedonce Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015049730826
Features work of several Indigenous writers from many countries; Australian authors include Richard Frankland, Kenny Laughton, Melissa Lucashenko, Sally Morgan, Bruce Pascoe and Alexis Wright.
Author : Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000366334
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136786808
With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319693293
Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic interests that have historically motivated Canada’s approach to the Arctic and shaped literary representations. A recent shift in Canadian writing away from national sovereignty to circumpolar stewardship is revealed in detailed close readings of Kathleen Winter’s Boundless and Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold.
