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Abel, Jordan, 1985- (author.).

Summary:

Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper's nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga'a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor, the successive chapters of Empty Spaces move toward an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780771002014 (Hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : McClelland & Stewart, 2023.

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Biographical or Historical Data:
Jordan Abel is a Nisg̱a'a writer from Vancouver.
Subject: Niska Indians > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Land tenure > Fiction.
Nature > Fiction.

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