Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut = Hunter with harpoon = Chasseur au harpon / Markoosie Patsauq ; edited and translated by Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mahieu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markoosie, author.

Contributor:

Mahieu, Marc-Antoine, editor.

Henitiuk, Valerie, editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and northern studies ; 99

Language:

English

French

Inuktitut

Subjects (All):

Markoosie. Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut--English.

Markoosie.

Inuit--Fiction.

Inuit.

Polar bear hunting--Fiction.

Polar bear hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in Inuktitut (romanized and syllabic characters), with translations into English and French; commentary in English.

Summary:

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in Canada. Published in English under the title Harpoon of the Hunter in 1970 by McGill-Queen's University Press, that version of the story was Patsauq's own adaptation. In the years that followed the widely acclaimed English edition was translated into many different languages, but what has remained obscured until the present day is the Inuktitut text originally produced by the author.In collaboration with Patsauq, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mahieu have foregrounded the original Inuktitut text to inform their translations into both English and French. This critical edition, complete with the story in both Inuktitut syllabics and Latin script, utilizes the author's handwritten manuscript as well as interviews with Patsauq to produce a new, rigorous examination of this literary and cultural milestone. This work also includes the first comprehensive account of the critical response to his writing while underscoring the way the much-altered English adaptation from 1970 shaped that response.A momentous achievement that situates a new classic in the twenty-first century, Hunter with Harpoon brings readers back to the roots of Markoosie Patsauq's Inuit story to experience it as it was originally written.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / Hunter with Harpoon / Chasseur au harpon

Uumajursiutik Unaatuinnamut

Hunter with Harpoon

Chasseur Au Harpon

Untangling the Lines

Inuit Orature and Literature

Reception of the 1970 English Adaptation, Titled Harpoon of the Hunter

Markoosie’s Life and Its Intersections with the Broader Inuit Experience

Inuit qaujimajatuqangit

Markoosie as Author

Translation from Inuktitut

Translation Journey of Markoosie’s Text

A Renewed Relationship to Translation from the Inuktitut

Editors’ Acknowledgments

Appendices

Transcription of Passages Originally in Inuktitut, from Preface

Genealogical Chart

Timeline

Works by and about Markoosie Patsauq, His Life and Writing

Establishing the Inuktitut text of Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0503-5

OCLC:

1190697076