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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.
We know from the text that Nasdijj
选项
A、has a Navajo mother and a white father.
B、has lifted ideas from other literary works.
C、has been suffering from visionary seizures.
D、has told a story of his own experience.
答案
B
解析
观点态度题。根据第二段最后一句话“我怀疑他是一个文学剽窃者和撒谎者”可得出答案为B项.其中liftfrom意为“偷窃”。A项中的内容只是Nasdijj自己宣称的,并且在下文也指出这是他的谎言,因此错误;C项中的内容是作者作品中的主角的故事,不是Nasdijj的,故错误;自传式的作品应该是本文作者的,因此D项错误。
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