{"id":2921,"date":"2011-05-09T02:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2011-05-09T03:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T07:03:56","slug":"another-trauma-narrative-bits-flashback-for-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/another-trauma-narrative-bits-flashback-for-may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Trauma Narrative: Bits Flashback for May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keyboard\"<\/a>On Saturday, Black College Wire<\/em> posted an article on a composition assignment<\/a> that had consequences the teacher never expected. The teacher, Lisa Carl, asked students to write “either a first-person autobiographical account of a significant event in their lives or an analysis of a graphic novel or anthropological classic.”<\/p>\n

In response, student Jessica Martin wrote the essay “I had an affair with my high school teacher<\/a>,” which was later published in the N.C. Central University’s newspaper, the Campus Echo<\/a>, as part of an annual collection of first-person narratives. The student’s account has resulted in campus scrutiny of her decision to write the essay and the newspaper’s decision to publish it—as well as the arrest of the high school teacher she wrote about. <\/p>\n

As I read about the aftermath of the essay’s publication, I thought immediately of Holly Pappas’s Trauma Narrative<\/a> post last month and how pertinent all the questions she raises are in this situation. It’s worth rereading Holly’s piece and thinking about how it applies and the new questions that it raises.<\/p>\n

While you’re looking at past entries, also check out these Bedford Bits<\/a> posts from last week:<\/p>\n