Laughter Out of Place Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown

Name: Laughter Out of Place Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
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ISBN: 9780520235977

ISBN-10: 0520235975

ISBN-13: 9780520235977

Edition: 2003

Authors: Donna M. Goldstein

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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.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" as well as a contributing editor at "Harper's" magazine. He is the author of two prize-winning books: "Second Nature: A Gardener's Education" and "A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder." Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.



List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments


Introduction



Laughter "Out of Place"



The Aesthetics of Domination: Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers



Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna



No Time for Childhood



State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro



Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire



What's So Funny about Rape?


Notes


Glossary


References


Index