Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English

By Penny Petrone, ed.

A classic anthology that combines the rich oral tradition of Northern Canadian Inuit as well as their more recent English writing. Petrone links the cultural past of arctic peoples with its present day expression.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802057721
• ISBN13: 9780802057723
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

From Oral to Press

Northern Voices, now in paperback, offers an multi-dimensional perspective of Inuit culture. The literature comes from various places in the Canadian Arctic and from different times, before contact to the present. The genres are as diverse as the historical representation. There are selections of stories that have been passed on for generations in the oral tradition. Other selections are of poetry, diary entries, short narratives and excerpts from longer works. Taken as an entirety, however, the work can be studied from colonial and post-colonial, gender, and ethnographic perspectives. Essential reading for Canadian and Northern Studies as well as Canadian Literature.