Echoing Silence: Essays on Arctic NarrativeJohn Moss The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants. Published in English. |
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Contents
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Inuit Accounts and the Franklin Mystery | 53 |
J Dewey Soper 18931982 | 61 |
On Making History | 69 |
John Stefflers The Afterlife of George Carturright and Harold Horwoods White Eskimo | 113 |
The Northern Contemplations of Rudy Wiebe Aritha van Herk and John Moss | 123 |
An Exploration of Enduring Dreams | 137 |
The Spirit of the Arctic or Translating the Untranslatable in Rudy Wiebes A Discovery of Strangers | 145 |
Representations of the Arctic in the Writings of Aritha van Herk | 153 |
Gendering Northern Narrative | 163 |
Adventure Narrative Engendering | 183 |
Written Narratives and the Oral Tradition | 191 |
Creating Willem Barentsz Piloting North | 79 |
A Nomad Learns to Write and Draw | 93 |
Speech Habits and Inuit Ethos | 103 |
Conversations | 107 |
An Enduring PanArctic Legend from Traditional Orature to the New Narratives of the Late Twentieth Century | 211 |
Skeleton Woman Woman of the Sea | 225 |
Contributors | 231 |
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