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Singnagtugaq
Storch, Mathias; Rasmussen, Knud
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Description for Singnagtugaq
Paperback. Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil-Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the tim Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 109 x 18. Weight in Grams: 130.
Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil–Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics. It also described the first required Danish education ... Read more
Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil–Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics. It also described the first required Danish education ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780982170380
SKU
V9780982170380
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Ref
99-2
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