The Beothuk saga : a novel / by Bernard Assiniwi ; translated by Wayne Grady.
The Beothuk saga : a novel / by Bernard Assiniwi ; translated by Wayne Grady.
By
:
Assiniwi, Bernard, 1935-2000.
Publication Date
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2001, 1996
Publication Information
:
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart,
Physical Description
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341 p. : map.
Subject Term
:
Beothuk Indians -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Grady, Wayne.
Summary
:
Around the year 1000, a young Beothuk Native American, Anin, tours what he believes to be "the world" and is actually the island of Newfoundland. This journey, and his encounter with Vikings established in the north of the island, suddenly opens up, for him and his people, the space of geography and civilizations. Founder of a new clan, Anin is the ancestor of all the characters whose gesture recounted here ends up forming, until the end of a slow and inexorable genocide, the saga of a nation that has now disappeared. Historical, mythological, epic, ethnographic, this great novel about the Beothuk people makes a fascinating contribution to the rediscovery of indigenous societies, at the same time as it sheds light on a particularly dramatic episode in the white conquest of America.
Language
:
English
ISBN
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9780771007996
General Note
:
Translation of : La saga des Beothuks.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Burgeo (WBO) | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC ASS | Available Soon |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Fiction NL Reference - Conservation Room | FIC ASS | NonCirculating |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | FIC ASS | NonCirculating |
Whitbourne (AWB) | Adult Fic NL | Adult Fiction NL | FIC ASS | Checked In |