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Injun (Paperback) Loot Price: R299
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Injun (Paperback): Jordan Abel

Injun (Paperback)

Jordan Abel

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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  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.

General

Imprint: Talonbooks
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: April 2016
Authors: Jordan Abel
Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 978-0-88922-977-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
LSN: 0-88922-977-5
Barcode: 9780889229778

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