The epic of Qayak [[electronic resource] ] : the longest story ever told by my people / / Lela Kiana Oman, authors ; Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks, editors

• Autore: Oman Lela Kiana
• Pubblicazione: Ottawa, : Carleton University Press, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 119 p. : ill. (some col.)
• Disciplina: 398.22/0899971
• Soggetto topico: Inuit - Alaska; Legends - Alaska
• Altri autori: TylerPriscilla BrooksMaree
• Note generali: Co-published by Carleton University Art Gallery.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Preamble -- The Epic of Qayaq -- List of Plates
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.
• Titolo autorizzato: The epic of Qayak
• ISBN: 1-282-86418-1; 9786612864186; 0-7735-7398-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782720503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II