Be More Bookish - Week 6, Assignment 2

The Prezi chart is really well done, and I can definitely see it being a valuable tool for teaching genres and sub-genres. The only thing I was surprised to see was that the Native American sub-genre was categorized under Westerns, and the example given was War Dances by Sherman Alexie, a collection of short stories, essays, and poems examining what it means to be a Native American today. I can't say I agree with the classification, as to me it hearkens back to "classic" and uncomfortable depictions of Native Americans in old Western films and books. Sherman Alexie in particular, I would argue, writes literary fiction occasionally bordering into offbeat humor with some elements of magical realism or surrealism. Of course, that's a minor grievance with the exercise and the Prezi display can hardly be faulted for how we classify certain authors and sub-genres.