Rescuing Sedna: Doorslamming, Fingerslicing, and the Moral of the Story

Abstract

Compares English translations of the Inuit legend of Sedna to early rewrites of Ibsen's "A Doll's House". "...interpreters of Ibsen and tellers of Inuit stories both struggle with the same problem: the seemingly unavoidable need on the part of the audience to distill the complexities of an unfamiliar or unsettling text down to a set of easily-understood principles-to find a moral in the story."