Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation/ (Record no. 4802)
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| fixed length control field | 01791nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 4802 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250217s9999 xx 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781644450932 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Alsadir, Nuar |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6771 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Nuar Alsadir |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Graywolf Press; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320p; |
| Dimensions | 21x14cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. A bold and insatiably curious prose debut, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | BF1-990 Psychology |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1315 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Philosophy. Psychology. Religion. | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei | BF1-990 11.327 | 4802 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book | |||||
| Philosophy. Psychology. Religion. | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei | BF1-990 11.327 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book |