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portada The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2007
Language
English
Pages
212
Format
Paperback
Weight
1
ISBN
0567026787
ISBN13
9780567026781
Edition No.
1
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The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo

Jacqueline A. Bussie (Author) · T & T Clark International · Paperback

The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo - Jacqueline A. Bussie

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Synopsis "The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo "

Jacqueline Bussie's book tackles the following unanswered questions: What is the theological and ethical significance of the laughter of the oppressed? And what does it mean to laugh at the horrible--to laugh while one suffers? The majority of ethical philosophical theory and western theology (e.g. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, Oecolampadius, Reinhold Niebuhr) maintains that laughter is nihilistic and irresponsible, especially if occurring within tragic circumstance. However, she argues that the dominant social location of these theologians and theorists has led to a gap in inquiry, to a failure to consider laughter "from below." For Judeo-Christian theology, The Laughter of the Oppressed explores uncharted terrain. This book broadens the theological lens to examine the multicultural, modern historical fiction of Elie Wiesel, Toni Morrison, and Shusaku Endo as case studies. In these authors' well-respected texts, Gates of the Forest, Beloved, and Silence, we discover the laughter of the Jews during the Holocaust, the laughter of African Americans both slave and free, and the laughter of the persecuted religious minority of Japanese Christians. These texts, in dialogue with voices from within and beyond their traditions, help us construct a theology of laughter. Bussie's book concludes that laughter functions as invaluable ethical and theological mode of resistance in the face of radically negating oppression that has ruptured both language and traditional belief. The Laughter of the Oppressed not only interrupts the banality of evil and the dualism of faith and doubt, but also deconstructs the dominant consciousness. Such laughter challenges theology to rearticulate the relationships between God and evil, theology and theodicy, theology and language, paradox and faith, tragedy and hope, and oppression and resistance.

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