Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity

SKU: 9781772311136

Author:
Norma Dunning
Grade Levels:
Twelve, Adult Education
Book Type:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Bookland Press
Copyright Data:
2021

Price:
Sale price$16.95

Description

Norma Dunning is an Inuit writer, scholar, professor and grandmother. She grew up beyond the tundra and lived mainly in smaller, northern communities across Canada.

Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be. Her words examine what it is like to feel the constant rejection of her work from non-Inuit people and how we must all in some way find the spirit to carry through with what we hold to be true demonstrating the importance of standing tall and close to our words as Indigenous Canadians. We are the guardians of our work regardless of the cost to ourselves as artists and as Inuit people, we matter.

Indigenous Voices Award 2021, Short-listed.

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