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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

byNuar Alsadir

Poet and psychoanalyst Nuar Alsadir investigates laughter as bodily eruption, social signal, artistic practice, and route back to aliveness. Encounters with clown school, comedy, trauma, performance, and psychoanalytic thought reveal laughter that is joyful, nervous, cruel, involuntary, or liberating. The book resists turning humor into a simple wellness technique; it asks what breaks through when controlled adult selves lose composure. Alsadir combines memoir, criticism, and observation to explore spontaneity and repression, suggesting that animal joy can resuscitate parts of experience disciplined out of ordinary public life.

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781644450932