![]() ![]() However, the author provides no indication of when the fiction ends and the non-fiction/memoir begins, thus presenting the novel as what Cherokee scholar Daniel Heath Justice terms in Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018), an ‘Indigenous wonderwork ’. It brings together prose, poetry, illustrations, Inuit worldviews and epistemologies, as well as Tagaq’s own memoir. As a narrative that addresses colonial traumas in the peripheries of what is known today as the settler-colonial state of Canada, the novel stands out for its plasticity in terms of form, style, narrative registers, and aesthetic techniques. ![]() Split Tooth (2018) is the debut novel of the Inuk throat singer and artist Tanya Tagaq. ![]() University of Exeter PhD candidate Abdenour Bouich reviews the novel’s themes and potency. The Indigenous Literature Reading Group met on 23rd April 2021 to discuss Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth (Penguin, 2019). ![]()
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