laughter of the oppressed
Subtitle: ethical and teological resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo
By: by Jacqueline A. Bussie.
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567026774; 9780567026781
Subjects: Laughter -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Laughter in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Laughter "from below"; title: Authoritative voices speak : philosophers and theologians weigh-in on laughter; title: "God's mistake" : Holocaust laughter in Elie Wiesel's Gates of the forest; title: Believing apostates : laughter in Shusaku Endo's Silence; title: Flowers in the dark : African American consciousness, laughter, and resistance in Toni Morrison's Beloved; title: Toward a theology of laughter.