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Perry Nodelman
{ "description": "<p>When I wrote this in 1984, I thought of myself as a humane and tolerant person expressing humane, tolerant views. I'm uploading it three decades later because I find much of what I say here embarrassing--and because what embarrasses me is my utterly unconscious assumption of white male privilege. I praise O'Dell's choice of not providing his young Navaho narrator with a name for much of the book--a choice I now see as a commentary on the deprivation of her personhood that in fact confirms and reinforces that deprivation. I also praised O'Dell's depiction of the Navajo stoicism and refusal to express anger at what is happening to them--another confirmation of a hoary stereotype. Worst of all, I simply took it as an absolute truth that no one who was Navajo or even remotely like a Navajo would ever be part of the audience of the book. I have uploaded the article here not only because I feel guilty about what I once took for granted, and because I hope I have learned enough and grown enough to be less guilty now than I was in 1984.</p>", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode", "creator": [ { "affiliation": "University of Winnipeg", "@type": "Person", "name": "Perry Nodelman" } ], "headline": "A Second Look: Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon.", "image": "https://zenodo.org/static/img/logos/zenodo-gradient-round.svg", "datePublished": "1984-02-01", "url": "https://zenodo.org/record/556564", "keywords": [ "Indigenous Studies", "Children's Literature", "Children's Literature & Culture", "Children's and Young Adult Literature", "White Privilege", "Children's Fiction", "Scott O'Dell" ], "@context": "https://schema.org/", "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.556564", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.556564", "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", "name": "A Second Look: Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon." }
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