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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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 814.6 A4611a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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