Alice Masak French (June 29, 1930 – July 5, 2013) was an
Inuit
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author who lived in
Souris,
Manitoba
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, Canada. An
Inuvialuit
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, she was born at
Baillie Island
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in the
Northwest Territories. Her work focuses on the experiences of Inuit women, and discusses the struggle to hold on to Native tradition. Her ''My Name is Masak'' (1976; translated into French as ''Je m'appelle Masak'', 1979) is an autobiographical story about her youth in a boarding school, while ''The Restless Nomad'' (1992) continues the story up until she moves to
Ireland
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French, Alice Masak
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References
Sources
Biography of Alice Masak French
on Inuit.uqam.ca.
*Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", ''Collection Building'' Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4
* Watson, C. "Autobiographical Writing as a Healing Process: Interview with Alice Masak French. Canadian Literature/Litterature canadienne, Number 167, Winter 2006, 32-44.
1930 births
2013 deaths
Inuvialuit people
Canadian autobiographers
Canadian Inuit women
Writers from Manitoba
Inuit writers
Women autobiographers
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian women writers
People from Souris, Manitoba
Writers from the Northwest Territories
Inuit from the Northwest Territories
Canadian women non-fiction writers
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