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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:08:10 -0700
Hello everyone from Nancy Flood, writing from the Navajo Reservation,
I agree with Eleanore regarding the humor in FEED. However I think it asks a larger question regarding the many facets of humor - dark humor, sarcastic humor, slapstick humor, play-on-words humor. For me I have found it fascinating to learn also about the "sacredness" of humor within the Navajo culture. Humor is healing; laughing is a way of connecting to others, to ones' enemy, to one's darker self. We laugh at what scares us.
I also would suggest that the question of humor is further complicated, not only by culture and ethnicity, but also by developmental stages. Knock-knock humor is funny for the younger reader; an adolescent finds humor in social difficulties; and for adults - we laugh about sexuality, ageing and death.
Great question, Eleanore, and like all good questions, it leads to many more.
I sure look forward to the array of events for poetry month, thank you!
Nancy Bo Flood
970 456-7746 PO 789 Chinle, AZ 86503 (USA)
wflood at hotmail.com www.nancyboflood.com
author of Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, A Children's Choice and Arizona Book of the Year
Sand to Stone, the Life Cycle of Sandstone
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:44:07 -0700
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> Hi all,
> This is a very comprehensive "funny YA" list. I was curious as to why "Feed" was on it. Is "Feed" really funny ha ha or funny yikes?
> Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel
> Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
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Received on Mon 30 Mar 2009 01:08:10 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:08:10 -0700
Hello everyone from Nancy Flood, writing from the Navajo Reservation,
I agree with Eleanore regarding the humor in FEED. However I think it asks a larger question regarding the many facets of humor - dark humor, sarcastic humor, slapstick humor, play-on-words humor. For me I have found it fascinating to learn also about the "sacredness" of humor within the Navajo culture. Humor is healing; laughing is a way of connecting to others, to ones' enemy, to one's darker self. We laugh at what scares us.
I also would suggest that the question of humor is further complicated, not only by culture and ethnicity, but also by developmental stages. Knock-knock humor is funny for the younger reader; an adolescent finds humor in social difficulties; and for adults - we laugh about sexuality, ageing and death.
Great question, Eleanore, and like all good questions, it leads to many more.
I sure look forward to the array of events for poetry month, thank you!
Nancy Bo Flood
970 456-7746 PO 789 Chinle, AZ 86503 (USA)
wflood at hotmail.com www.nancyboflood.com
author of Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, A Children's Choice and Arizona Book of the Year
Sand to Stone, the Life Cycle of Sandstone
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:44:07 -0700
> From: tatertot22us at yahoo.com
> To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu; marcytroy at wideopenwest.com
> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Book being pulled from shelf
>
>
> Hi all,
> This is a very comprehensive "funny YA" list. I was curious as to why "Feed" was on it. Is "Feed" really funny ha ha or funny yikes?
> Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel
> Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
>
>
>
>
>
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