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Manikanetish / Naomi Fontaine ; translated by Luise von Flotow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Toronto : Arachnide, 2021Description: 168 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781487008147
  • 1487008147
Related works:
  • Translation of: Fontaine, Naomi, 1987- Manikanetish. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Manikanetish.DDC classification:
  • C843/.6 23
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Summary: "In Naomi Fontaine's Governor General's Literary Award finalist, a young teacher's return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair. After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, returns to her home in the Uashat nation on Quebec's North Shore. She has come back to teach language and drama at the community's school, but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to rescue her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves. In writing both spare and polyphonic, Naomi Fontaine honestly portrays a year of Yammie's teaching and of the lives of her students, dislocated, abandoned, and ultimately, possibly, triumphant."-- Provided by publisher.
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BOOK Meaford Public Library Fiction Fiction FIC Fonta (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Grey County Reads 2022 Indigenous 21853
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Translation of: Manikanetish.

"In Naomi Fontaine's Governor General's Literary Award finalist, a young teacher's return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair. After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, returns to her home in the Uashat nation on Quebec's North Shore. She has come back to teach language and drama at the community's school, but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to rescue her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves. In writing both spare and polyphonic, Naomi Fontaine honestly portrays a year of Yammie's teaching and of the lives of her students, dislocated, abandoned, and ultimately, possibly, triumphant."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic formats.

Translated from the French.

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