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Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel

Empty Spaces is a novel by Jordan Abel.

A novel about land and legacy

Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel. A black book cover with a circle of colours in the centre.
(Penguin Random House Canada)

Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper's nineteenth-century textThe Last of the Mohicansfrom the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga'a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonialviolence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popularunderstandingsabout Indigenous storytelling.

Engaging the land through fiction andmetaphor, the successive chapters ofEmpty Spacesmove 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. (From Penguin Random House)

Abel is a Nisga'a writer from British Columbia. He is also the author of the poetry collectionsThe Place of Scraps,Un/inhabitedandInjun. In 2017, hewon the Griffin Poetry PrizeforInjun.

Interview with Jordan Abel

The acclaimed Edmonton-based writer dissects and disassembles the classic story and reframes it into a powerful Indigenous account of location, identity and agency.

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