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From: Uma <uma_at_gobrainstorm.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:22:25 -0800
I know we’ve moved on from this subject but I just want to thank you for making me laugh, Lyn. Your anecdote may not be that irrelevant to last month's discussion. Words change in meaning and connotations over time, after all. Your son could only make that joke because he understood the idea of questioning the concept of “discovery.” It’s a loaded topic, and ironic humor thrives in such spaces. However it bears noting that the subaltern can get away with the joke only if he’s as sharp and canny as your son obviously was but also only if those with the authority (in this case you) are also willing to laugh.
Uma
Uma Krishnaswami http://www.umakrishnaswami.org The Problem With Being Slightly Heroic (Atheneum, 2013) The Girl of the Wish Garden: A Thumbelina Story (Groundwood, 2013) Out of the Way! Out of the Way! (Groundwood, 2012, Tulika Books, 2010) Book Uncle and Me (Scholastic India, 2012) The Grand Plan to Fix Everything (Atheneum, 2011)
On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com> wrote:
> OK, this adds absolutely nothing to the conversation, but I really hope folks find it funny. And as readers of this past month's books (and others like THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY...) know, humor can be a way of bridging cultures and defusing tension.
>
> "Discovered" is the term my husband and I used at 11 pm to refer to our son's homework due the next day. Given that he was well aware of my work with MultiCultural Review (and who couldn't be with hundreds of review books lying around the house) and that he has ADHD and was prone to this late-night occurrence, our son started calling himself Columbus with us at home.
>
> Lyn Miller-Lachmann
> Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009)
> Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013)
> www.lynmillerlachmann.com
> www.thepiratetree.com
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Received on Tue 04 Mar 2014 03:23:10 PM CST
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:22:25 -0800
I know we’ve moved on from this subject but I just want to thank you for making me laugh, Lyn. Your anecdote may not be that irrelevant to last month's discussion. Words change in meaning and connotations over time, after all. Your son could only make that joke because he understood the idea of questioning the concept of “discovery.” It’s a loaded topic, and ironic humor thrives in such spaces. However it bears noting that the subaltern can get away with the joke only if he’s as sharp and canny as your son obviously was but also only if those with the authority (in this case you) are also willing to laugh.
Uma
Uma Krishnaswami http://www.umakrishnaswami.org The Problem With Being Slightly Heroic (Atheneum, 2013) The Girl of the Wish Garden: A Thumbelina Story (Groundwood, 2013) Out of the Way! Out of the Way! (Groundwood, 2012, Tulika Books, 2010) Book Uncle and Me (Scholastic India, 2012) The Grand Plan to Fix Everything (Atheneum, 2011)
On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com> wrote:
> OK, this adds absolutely nothing to the conversation, but I really hope folks find it funny. And as readers of this past month's books (and others like THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY...) know, humor can be a way of bridging cultures and defusing tension.
>
> "Discovered" is the term my husband and I used at 11 pm to refer to our son's homework due the next day. Given that he was well aware of my work with MultiCultural Review (and who couldn't be with hundreds of review books lying around the house) and that he has ADHD and was prone to this late-night occurrence, our son started calling himself Columbus with us at home.
>
> Lyn Miller-Lachmann
> Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009)
> Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013)
> www.lynmillerlachmann.com
> www.thepiratetree.com
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