![]() ![]() Again this section was quite a hard read. The seal represents the balance of health and sickness or sadness in the world. Scheduled Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq - 7th November - The paragraph of symbols - Walking home from school (pg84) Welcome back fellow readers. ![]() The narrator’s relationship with the Northern Lights is explicitly contrasted with her relationship with Christianity, as unlike the prudish colonial Christianity which was involved in the colonization of the Arctic, the narrator’s relationship with the Northern Lights is explicitly sexual and magical. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love. TANYA TAGAQ in conversation with KENT MONKMAN at Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles), Tuesday. ![]() The lights are therefore a major spiritual force which causes the narrator’s pregnancy, an ultimately magical one as her children are shapeshifters who represent the forces of health and sickness, or happiness and sadness, in the world. Tanya Tagaq’s exhilarating debut novel, Split Tooth, is as boundary-dissolving as her music. ![]() The lights are a sexual partner for the narrator as well as a revelatory force, since during the narrator’s night on the tundra she witnesses her ancestors in the lights. The Northern Lights symbolize Indigenous spiritual power in the novel. ![]()
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