Empty spaces
Abel, Jordan, 1985-2024
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Jordan Abel's new work grows out of the groundbreaking visual expression in his recently published 'NISHGA', a book that combined nonfiction with photography, concrete poetry, and literary inquiry. Whereas 'NISHGA' integrated descriptions of the landscape from James Fenimore Cooper's settler classic 'The Last of the Mohicans' into visual pieces, 'Empty Spaces' reinscribes those words on the page itself, and in doing so subjects them to bold rewritings. Reimagining the nineteenth-century text from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga'a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge and spiritual traditions was severed by colonial violence, Abel attempts to answer his research question of what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory.
Main title:
Empty spaces / Jordan Abel.
Author:
Abel, Jordan, 1985-, author, photographer
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780300275544 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
2708219
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