Hello everyone,
I just wanted to bring something to light. I caught a little bit of The View this morning and one of the "hot topics" the panel discussed was about The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter. I thought it was interesting because we talked about this book at the beginning of the semester when we covered Native American Literature. What they talked about in particular was that the book was on Oprah's Book Club and once it was revealed that Carter had affiliations with the KKK it was removed from the list. One point I found interesting was that the panel was under the impression that Oprah knew about Carter's background before she added the book to the list in the first place. So, why take it off now? It was an interesting conversation.
Whoopi Goldberg was adament that for her the art is separate from the artist, and that if the book is good and well written it should not matter who the author is.
I think this topic also gets at our insider - outsider debate.
I am curious to know what other people think about this issue and if you want to read more about it here is a link to an Associated Press article http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hn9MPi92q2bX2QxOxZ5hRLrwaPywD8SOGA601
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Wow. Thanks for posting this. I bet this is going to get people talking. Interesting that they included the perspective of Sherman Alexie who we talked about as well ("The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian").
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