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From: Uma <uma_at_gobrainstorm.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:59:48 -0700
I’ve been reading The Summer Prince through the week but also working on teaching and writing deadlines, so I but wasn’t able to join in the discussion. I just wanted to say that there is so much in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s reply that rang bells for me. Above all, this:
> The US isn't neutral territory.
No territory is neutral, is it? Just acknowledging that, and acknowledging her concern about her own underlying assumptions, places this writer squarely in the complicated terrain that all of us should strive to inhabit. The book conveys that complexity simply by existing, by those choices Johnson made of where to set it and when, and with what social context. Much the the way the images of the sea mingle with the stench of the algae vats, beauty and the verde, so to speak, are a mix in every society. When that's revealed as essential and natural to the story then it does not come across as authorial judgement.
Thank you for this most interesting discussion and many thanks to ADJ for her terrific responses to questions.
Uma
Uma Krishnaswami Writer, Author of Children's Books http://www.umakrishnaswami.com Faculty Chair, MFA-Writing for Children & Young Adults, Vermont College of Fine Arts http://www.vcfa.edu/low-residency-mfa/writing-children-young-adults
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Received on Sun 23 Mar 2014 01:00:11 PM CDT
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:59:48 -0700
I’ve been reading The Summer Prince through the week but also working on teaching and writing deadlines, so I but wasn’t able to join in the discussion. I just wanted to say that there is so much in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s reply that rang bells for me. Above all, this:
> The US isn't neutral territory.
No territory is neutral, is it? Just acknowledging that, and acknowledging her concern about her own underlying assumptions, places this writer squarely in the complicated terrain that all of us should strive to inhabit. The book conveys that complexity simply by existing, by those choices Johnson made of where to set it and when, and with what social context. Much the the way the images of the sea mingle with the stench of the algae vats, beauty and the verde, so to speak, are a mix in every society. When that's revealed as essential and natural to the story then it does not come across as authorial judgement.
Thank you for this most interesting discussion and many thanks to ADJ for her terrific responses to questions.
Uma
Uma Krishnaswami Writer, Author of Children's Books http://www.umakrishnaswami.com Faculty Chair, MFA-Writing for Children & Young Adults, Vermont College of Fine Arts http://www.vcfa.edu/low-residency-mfa/writing-children-young-adults
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