Given that there has been a general social prohibition (far too weakly enforced) against hitting women for a much
greater slice of history than the Kindle has been infuriating writers of noble purpose, I have to say that I think Mr. Alexie probably got his fair due.
Helmed by Denzil Washington under the umbrella
of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, The
Great Debaters exposes a forgotten
slice of African American
history when a small black college became the leaders in spoken word competition.
Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes
of man against nature, and the nature
of man against man, but she also captures a big
slice of social
history, illustrating the incredible hardships
of the time - the
great depression, extensive years
of drought, the memories
of one war still present and the impending onset
of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.