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In 1999 a Native American writer published an essay, The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams. It earned a National Magazin
In 1999 a Native American writer published an essay, The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams. It earned a National Magazin
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2015-12-23
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In 1999 a Native American writer published an essay, The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams. It earned a National Magazine Award nomination. That rags-to-riches tale of courage and salvation sounds like a Horatio Alger story, doesn’t it? It should be a movie. Of course, I’m biased because it’s my story. Kind of. Raised fragile and poor on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State, I published a story, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, in 1993. My story, which features an autobiographical character named Thomas Builds-the-Fire who suffers a brain injury at birth and experiences visionary seizures into his adulthood was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.
Nasdijj, the one-name author of The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams, claimed to be the son of a Navajo mother and a white father, who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don’t you think? Of course, after reading Nasdijj’s essay and book, I suspected that he was a literary thief and a liar.
Angry, saddened, self-righteous and more than a little jealous that this guy was stealing some of my autobiographical story, I approached Nasdijj’s publishers. I told them his book not only was borderline cheating but also failed to mention specific tribal members, clans, ceremonies and locations, all of which are vital to the concept of Indian identity. They took me seriously, but they didn’t believe me.
And how do I feel now that the author of an investigative story in L.A. Weekly believes that Nasdijj is a fraud and actually a white writer named Timothy Barrus? Justified and satisfied? Well, sure. I dream of leaving "I told you so" messages on many voice mails, although unlike James Frey’s publisher, who initially supported his lies and moral evasions about his exaggerated memoir, A Million Little Pieces, Nasdijj’s publisher dropped him because of personality conflicts even before the L.A. Weekly story came out.
So why should we be concerned about his lies? His lies matter because he was co-opted as a literary style the very real suffering endured by generations of very real Indians because of very real injustices caused by very real American aggression that destroyed very real tribes. I can only hope that Nasdijj’s readers will look to Oprah for inspiration. After initially defending the essential truth of Frey’s memoir, a selection for her book club, Oprah changed her mind, admitted that she had been
duped
, invited Frey back onto her show and called him a fraud. I think all the people who profited from Nasdijj’s fraud should consider that lesson and issue public apologies to Native Americans in general and to Navajo in particular.
The word "duped"(Line 5, Paragraph 5)most probably means
选项
A、ridiculed.
B、intimidated.
C、deceived.
D、puzzled.
答案
C
解析
词义理解题。根据dupe后面那句话“她把Frey再次请回了她的节目并把他称为骗子”可得出dupe的意思是欺骗。A项“嘲弄”、B项“威吓”和D项“困惑”都不符合文意。
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考研英语一
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