Author: Jordan Abel
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ISBN: 9780889229778
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Injun
Author: Jordan Abel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889229778
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889229778
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
'Injuns!'
Author: Edward Buscombe
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Explores changing representations of Native Americans.
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Explores changing representations of Native Americans.
Injun and Whitey to the Rescue
Author: William S. Hart
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Injun and Whitey to the Rescue" by William S. Hart. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Injun and Whitey to the Rescue" by William S. Hart. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Doddridge and Harrison Counties
Author: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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County Reports and Maps
Author: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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County Reports
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Toll of the Sands
Author: Paul De Laney
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Ten Cent “Ten Little Injuns” Songster
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Oil-well Driller
Author: Charles Austin Whiteshot
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Category : Oil industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Oil industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Injun Joe
Author: Marion Day
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ISBN: 9781877566479
Category : Helicopter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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ISBN: 9781877566479
Category : Helicopter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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