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Alsadir, Nuar.
Subjects
Laughter.
Joy.
Mothers and daughters.
Joking.
Laughter -- Psychological aspects.
Joking -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- Humor.
American wit and humor.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Alsadir, Nuar.
Laughter.
Joy.
Mothers and daughters.
Joking.
Laughter -- Psychological aspects.
Joking -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- Humor.
American wit and humor.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
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Animal
joy
: a
book
of
laughter
and
resuscitation
/ Nuar Alsadir.
by
Alsadir, Nuar.
Graywolf Press, 2022.
Call #:
814.6 A4611a
Subjects
Laughter
.
Joy
.
Mothers and daughters.
Joking.
Laughter
-- Psychological aspects.
Joking -- Psychological aspects.
Popular culture -- Humor.
American wit and humor.
American essays -- 21st century.
American essays -- Women authors.
ISBN:
9781644450932 (pbk)
Alternate title:
Book
of
laughter
and
resuscitation
Description:
279 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279).
Summary:
Taking
laughter
's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst,
Animal
Joy
is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
"
Laughter
shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous
laughter
is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking
laughter
's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst,
Animal
Joy
seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied. Writing in a poetic, associative style, blending the personal with the theoretical, Alsadir ranges from her experience in clown school, Anna Karenina's morphine addiction, Freud's un-Freudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers, to 'Not Jokes,' Abu Ghraib, Frantz's negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, and how poetry can wake us up. At the center of the
book
, however, is the author's relationship with her daughters, who erupt into the text like sudden, unexpected
laughter
. These interventions -- frank, tender, and always a challenge to the writer and her thinking -- are like tiny revolutions, pointedly showing the dangers of being severed from one's true self and hinting at ways one might be called back to it."--Publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
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