FROM ORAL TRADITION TO RAP: LITERATURES OF THE POLAR NORTH 2011 HARDCOVER

[LANGGARD, KAREN; THISTED, KRISTEN (eds)]. From Oral Tradition to Rap: Literatures of the Polar North. Nuuk, Greenland: Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, 2011.

First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (245 x 170 x 20 mm). Pp. 287. English text. Bound in publisher's original covers. Condition: LIKE NEW. An immaculate copy. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce.

Notes: Edited by Karen Langgård and Kirsten Thisted, with chapters on Sami, Faroese, Greenlandic, Canadian Inuit, native Alaskan and indigenous Siberian literature, this anthology provides a first attempt to draw the literary landscape of the Polar North. The contributors weave together a platform for studying and comparing these literatures across the borders of nation states and old colonial relations as yet another way of renegotiating outdated centre-periphery constructions. This literary landscape provides a map based on the indigenous peoples’ own descriptions and thoughts about their past and their future. Contributors include: Karen Langgård and Kirsten Thisted: Introduction Harald Gaski: Song, Poetry, and Images in Writing. Sami Literature Malan Marnersdóttir: From Oral Poetry to Rap in the Faroes Kirsten Thisted: Greenlandic Oral Traditions. Collection, Reframing and Reinvention Karen Langgård: Greenlandic Literature from Colonial Times to Self-Government Michael P. J. Kennedy: Canadian Inuit Literature in English. A Critical Bibliography Noel McDermott: Canadian Literature in Inuktitut William Schneider: Alaska Native Writers. Writing and Tradition Alexander D. King: A Literary History of Koryak. Writing and Publishing an Indigenous Siberian Language The project, with Karen Langgård as main responsible, started as an International Polar Year project and has been funded by Nordic Ministers’ Council’s Arctic Joint Program 2006-2008 and University of Greenland Ilisimatusarfik’s Publishing Funding.