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From: Tater Tot <tatertot22us>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
Nancy, those are very significant insights about humor. Thanks for pointing them out to us.
Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Nancy Bo Flood <wflood at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [CCBC-Net] Book being pulled from shelf
> To: tatertot22us at yahoo.com, ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu, marcytroy at wideopenwest.com
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:08 PM
> 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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Received on Mon 30 Mar 2009 06:52:35 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
Nancy, those are very significant insights about humor. Thanks for pointing them out to us.
Eleanora E. Tate, Author of the award-winning YA Novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Nancy Bo Flood <wflood at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [CCBC-Net] Book being pulled from shelf
> To: tatertot22us at yahoo.com, ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu, marcytroy at wideopenwest.com
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:08 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CCBC-Net mailing list
> > CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu
> > Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
> >
> http://lists.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
>
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Received on Mon 30 Mar 2009 06:52:35 PM CDT
