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Injun (Paperback)
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Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection, Injun,
is a long poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous
peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between
1840 and 1950 Â the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of
unfettered colonialism in North America  Injun then uses erasure,
pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking
response to the western genre.After compiling the online text of 91
of these now public-domain novels into one gargantuan document,
Abel used his word processor's  Find" function to search for the
word  injun." The 509 results were used as a study in context: How
was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What was left over once
that word was removed? Abel then cut up the sentences into clusters
of three to five words and rearranged them into the long poem that
is Injun. The book contains the poem as well as peripheral material
that will help the reader to replicate, intuitively, some of the
conceptual processes that went into composing the poem.Though it
has been phased out of use in our  post-racial" society, the word
 injun" is peppered throughout pulp western novels. Injun
retraces, defaces, and effaces the use of this word as a colonial
and racial marker. While the subject matter of the source text is
clearly problematic, the textual explorations in Injun help to
destabilize the colonial image of the  Indian" in the source
novels, the western genre as a whole, and the western canon.
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