Animal Joy (eBook)

A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir (Autor)

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2022
320 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-913097-96-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 feeling alive 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 unfreudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers to 'Not Jokes', Abu Ghraib, Fanon's negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, to how poetry can wake us up. At the centre of the book, though, 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 our True Self and hinting at ways we might be called back to it. A bold and insatiably curious prose debut, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.

Autor

Nuar Alsadir is a psychoanalyst and is the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize, and More Shadow Than Bird. Animal Joy is her prose debut. She lives in New York City.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Acting • Clowns • clown school • Comedy • corpsing • Daughter • Essay • Fanon • Freud • Identity • laughing • laughter • laughter, psychoanalysis, mother, daughter, poet, corpsing, spontaneity, essay, memoir, unconscious, Fanon, Freud, poetry, poet, clown school, acting, clowns, race, racism, identity, Maggie Nelson, laughing, comedy, lyric, lyric essay • lyric • lyric essay • Maggie Nelson • Memoir • mother • Poet • Poetry • Psychoanalysis • Race • Racism • spontaneity • Unconscious
• ISBN-10: 1-913097-96-X / 191309796X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913097-96-7 / 9781913097967