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		Abel, Jordan, 1985-

	Subjects
		Visual poetry -- First Nations authors.
		Visual poetry, Canadian.
		First Nations in literature.
		Indians in literature.
		Western stories -- History and criticism -- Poetry.
		First Nations -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.
		Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.
		Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Poetry.
		Griffin Poetry Prize.
		Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.
		Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

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		Abel, Jordan, 1985-
		Visual poetry -- First Nations authors.
		Visual poetry, Canadian.
		First Nations in literature.
		Indians in literature.
		Western stories -- History and criticism -- Poetry.
		First Nations -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.
		Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.
		Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Poetry.
		Griffin Poetry Prize.
		Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.
		Canadian poetry -- 21st century.


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Injun / Jordan Abel.

by Abel, Jordan, 1985-

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Talonbooks, 2016.

Visual poetry -- First Nations authors.

Visual poetry, Canadian.

First Nations in literature.

Indians in literature.

Western stories -- History and criticism -- Poetry.

First Nations -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.

Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Poetry.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Poetry.

Griffin Poetry Prize.

Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9780889229778 (pbk.)

82 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-82).

"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. Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer living in Vancouver. He is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former editor for PRISM international and Geist. He is the author of The Place of Scraps and Un/inhabited."--Provided by publisher.

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (Canadian), 2017.

Canadian poetry.

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