- ISSN: 0007-8204
- E-ISSN: 1943-2216
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f Magnificent Things and Terrible Men: Teaching Sherman Alexie in the Age of #MeToo
- Source: English Education, Volume 51, Issue 1, Oct 2018, p. 101 - 108
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- 01 Oct 2018
Abstract
The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have each cast light on the prevalence of sexual harassment in a variety of media industries. In this piece, I reflect on a college YAL seminar in which my students read Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The class discussion quickly became focused on Alexie himself and his surrounding accusations and subsequent admission of sexual misconduct. This piece seeks to catalog our conversation in hopes that as teachers, we may come to our own conclusions about silence, voice, choice, and when we can or should ever judge characters in art by the character of the artist.
© 2018 by the National Council of Teachers of English
