Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and

Goldstein, Donna M.

ISBN 10: 0520235975 / ISBN 13: 9780520235977

Published by University of California Press, 2003

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2003. South America. University of California Press. Very good - fine paperback 349p. 12/22 g crate.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520235975
• ISBN 13: 9780520235977
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and black-humor storytelling practices in the face of trauma and tragedy. Goldstein helps us to understand that such joking and laughter is part of an emotional aesthetic that defines the sense of frustration and anomie endemic to the political and economic desperation of the shantytown.

About the Author

Donna M. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.