Manikanetish
By: Naomi Fontaine ; translated by Luise von Flotow
Contributors: von Flotow, Luise, 1951- translator
Publisher: House of Anannsi Press Inc.; Arachnide Editions
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781487008147
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Teachers; Fiction; Drama; Students; Indigenous youth; Indian reservations; Indians of North America; Social conditions; Teacher-student relationships; Innu; Indigenous teachers; First Nations women; First Nations students; First Nations reservations; First Nations; First Nations fiction (French); Translations into English; Enseignants; Romans, nouvelles; Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
Work titles: Manikanetish
Description: "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."--
Notes: Translation of: Manikanetish.

Translated from the French.

Place of publication from the publisher's website.

Issued also in electronic formats.