{"product_id":"injun-paperback","title":"Injun - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJordan Abel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection, \u003ci\u003e Injun\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 -\u003ci\u003e Injun\u003c\/i\u003e then uses erasure, pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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\u003ci\u003e Injun\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough it has been phased out of use in our \"post-racial\" society, the word \"injun\" is peppered throughout pulp western novels.\u003ci\u003e Injun\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Injun\u003c\/i\u003e help to destabilize the colonial image of the \"Indian\" in the source novels, the western genre as a whole, and the Western canon.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer from Vancouver. His debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Place of Scraps\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2013), was awarded the BC Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Abel was an editor for \u003ci\u003ePoetry Is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and the former poetry editor for \u003ci\u003ePRISM\u003c\/i\u003e international and \u003ci\u003eGeist\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Alberta. His work has been published in journals and magazines across Canada, including \u003ci\u003eCV2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Capilano Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edANDelion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eARC Poetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDescant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBroken Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOCW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003efilling Station\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. His chapbooks \u003ci\u003eScientia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInjun\u003c\/i\u003e have been published by above\/ground press and JackPine Press, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174432247943,"sku":"9780889229778","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4a8b4ffc619257c9b68d361edd9a8dd7.webp?v=1733374322","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/injun-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}