Hass – Von der Macht eines widerständen Gefühls (2023) Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Warum Liebe politisch ist (2021) Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte (2019) Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007)ĭie Schönheit der Differenz: Miteinander anders denken (2022)Ī Black Women’s History of the United States (2020) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (2019) Speaking and being: how language binds and frees us (2022) The Purpose of Power: How we come together when we fall apart (2020) In the we and now: Becoming a feminist (20221)ĭeep Diversity – Overcoming Us vs. No country for eight-spot butterflies: A lyric essay (2022) Read by Tanya Tagaq herself, she adds traditional Inuit throat singing to the coming-of-age story, turning the book into a unique sound experience.Ī B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z Split Tooth is also available as an audio book. She moves effortlessly back and forth between harsh reality, Inuit myths and deeply personal poetry. Tanya Tagaq skilfully weaves these into one another, at all times easily avoiding the danger of becoming too much, too overwhelming. Split Tooth addresses many important issues that, although the story is set in the 1970s, have lost none of their relevance. In this way, Tanya Tagaq gives an insight into what it means to grow up as an indigenous person in a colonised country where the culture has been suppressed for centuries. In contrast to this is the destruction of nature for profit and the first noticeable consequences of climate change. This duality is also reflected in the image of the Arctic tundra, which Tanya Tagaq describes so movingly and intuitively that the reader feels the meaning for the Inuit. She moves between dream and reality, birth and death, community and individuality. In this way, her book resists genre categorization and moves steadily back and forth between memoir and fiction, between novel and poetry.ĭuality is also what characterizes the story of the young woman. Tagaq used her personal diaries, poems and short stories from the last 20 years as a foundation for her writing. Alongside encounters with friends, many moments in the Arctic tundra and the discovery of her own spirituality, the book tells of sexualised violence, trying out drugs, and the experiences she makes at residential schools. It tells the story of a young indigenous woman growing up in Nunavut in the 1970s. In 2020 it was translated into German under the title Eisfuchs (translated by Anke Caroline Burger). She grew up in Ikaluktutiak, Nunavut and published her first and to date only book Split Tooth in 2018.

Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous Canadian, is a multi-award-winning throat singer and experimental musician.

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