Research Catalog
Kukum
- Title
- Kukum / Michel Jean ; translated by Susan Ouriou.
- Author
- Jean, Michel, 1960-
- Publication
- [Toronto, Ontario] : Arachnide, 2023.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-713 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ouriou, Susan
- Description
- 208 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day."--
- Uniform Title
- Kukum. English
- Alternative Title
- Kukum.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- Biographical fiction.
- Note
- Translation of: Kukum.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-713
- ISBN
- 9781487010904
- 1487010907
- OCLC
- 1340032227
- Author
- Jean, Michel, 1960- author.
- Title
- Kukum / Michel Jean ; translated by Susan Ouriou.
- Publisher
- [Toronto, Ontario] : Arachnide, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Local Note
- TRANS. FROM FRENCH.
- Added Author
- Ouriou, Susan, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Jean, Michel, 1960- Kukum. English. Kukum. Toronto : Arachnide, 2023 1487010915 9781487010911 (OCoLC)1354768141
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-713