Canadian Inuit literature : The development of a tradition /
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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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[Ottawa, Ont.] :
National Museums of Canada,
1984.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.