Arctic dreams and nightmares

Ipellie, Alootook, 1951- (Author).

Summary: Utilizing intricately blended visual and written imagery, "Arctic Dreams and Nightmares" takes the reader on an Arctic journey interpreted through the mythological and contemporary world of an Inuk artist/author. Containing twenty short stories with accompanying pen ink drawings, it is the first publication to exclusively feature the writing and artwork of Alootook Ipellie. "Arctic Dreams and Nightmares" is one of the few books to be written by an Inuk in Canada, and is destined to become a landmark in the emerging discipline of Inuit literature.

Record details

ISBN: 9780919441477
ISBN: 0919441475
Physical Description: print
xx, 184 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Penticton, BC : Theytus Books, 1993.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Self-portrait: inverse ten commandments -- Ascension of my soul in death -- Nanuq, the white ghost, repents -- I, crucified -- Public execution of the hermaphrodite shaman -- Summit with Sedna, the mother of sea beasts -- When God sings the blues -- The five shy wives of the Shaman -- Trying to get to heaven -- The dogteam family -- Survival of the most violent -- Super stud -- After Brigitte Bardot -- Walrus ballet stories -- Arctic dreams and nightmares -- Love triangle -- Hunting for skins and fur -- The agony and the ecstasy -- The woman who married a goose -- The exorcism -- Glossary of Inuktitut words and their meanings.