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Lädt ... Manikanetishvon Naomi Fontaine
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Short chapters are like individual pieces of a complex patchwork quilt telling the story of a First Nations womanreturning home near Sept-Iles Quebec to be a high school teacher. The patchwork show aspects of a her college career, her longterm relationship with a non-native Quebecois, her return to remote Quebec to take up a position teaching French language and literature, her relationship with other teachers, with students, with family, with a new man. Most importantly, she discovers her self, her First Nations self, and her teaching self. The emotional similarity with "To Sir, With Love" is strong, but here the teacher is an Innu and the students are Innu. It's a quick, uplifting read, but I would have appreciated more character detail. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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 -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.6Literature French and related languages French fiction Revolution and empire 1789–1815Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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