Injun
by Jordan Abel
Jordan Abel reshapes language from 19th- and 20th-century Western novels into a long poem that confronts colonial depictions of Indigenous peoples.
About This Book
Jordan Abel’s Injun is a long poem constructed entirely from language found in Western novels published between 1840 and 1950.
The work searches these source texts for occurrences of the word 'Injun' and rearranges the surrounding passages into new poetic sequences.
Through this process, the book examines how colonial narratives have historically represented Indigenous peoples.
Injun invites readers to consider the persistence of these representations in contemporary culture.
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