![]() ![]() Tagaq’s setting is her hometown, the western Nunavut hamlet of Cambridge Bay- “this boring old town of twelve hundred souls (if you only count the humans, but whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?)” (12). Split Tooth is notable not only for its succulent prose and poetry but also for its conceptual brilliance: this is narrative but also philosophical meditation- a reflection on life and death in the Arctic cosmos at the end of the twentieth century. The red-edged hardcover-stunning in printed form but perhaps even more potent in the audiobook version narrated by Tagaq herself-defies not only categorization but also the readers’ comfort and expectations as it plunges us into a world both stark and tender. ![]() Known for her avant-garde adaptations of katajjaq- throatsinging- and for her willingness to speak up publicly about multiple forms of ongoing colonial violence, Tagaq has created a narrative text that shapeshifts between prose and poetry, memoir and fiction, realism and dreamscape. Split tooth is the literary debut of renowned Inuit musical performer Tanya Tagaq. ![]()
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