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The North Becomes Her

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

September 25, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit artist from Canada’s Arctic. She’s best known as a musician for her albums/ performances of throat singing, where she takes traditional Inuit throat singing and makes it her own; she has been nominated and won a number of Canadian music awards. In addition to music, Tagaq writes and her first work, Split Tooth, was published several years ago. It was long listed for the Giller Prize (Canada’s best known literary award) and for an Amazon best first novel award. Split […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arctic, bodies, cbr14bingo, Inuit, split tooth, tanya tagaq

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arctic, bodies, cbr14bingo, Inuit, split tooth, tanya tagaq ·
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Inhale small fears they turn into doubts.

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

August 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a pretty harrowing book and I spent the most of it trying to figure out if it was a novel or a memoir. I think it’s kind of both and kind of a deeply autobiographical novel. It shares a lot of similarities in form and structure (but not plot) to Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior, in the ways of mixing myth and spirituality in with real life events and trauma for figurative reasons, but also without highlighting these elements as figurative at all. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: split tooth, tanya tagaq

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:480 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: split tooth, tanya tagaq ·
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