(Hardback)

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 This book concludes that laughter functions as invaluable ethical and theological mode of resistance in the face of radically negating oppression.

(Paperback)

Broadens the theological lens to examine the multicultural, modern historical fiction of Elie Wiesel, Toni Morrison, and Shusaku Endo as case studies. This book concludes that laughter functions as invaluable ethical and theological mode of resistance in the face of negating oppression that has ruptured both language and traditional belief.