This is a study of Black women’s anger, its attempted silencing, and its cultural effects. It grounds the discussion of the political and cultural function of Black feminist anger in several points of inquiry, tying it to the conditions of Black life mired in the structures that characterize the afterlives of slavery and colonialism.
Turning to anger can do important work with regards to unraveling epistemic and hermeneutic injustices, the role of negative affect in public spaces, as well as in everyday communicative situations, and how emotional standards integral to dominant definitions of the human and of subjectivity function to maintain and reify human difference and discrimination. By analyzing integral works of Black literature, this book explores how the messiness of anger and rage is navigated and represented in literary texts, but also commended and valued as part of Black feminist lived experience.
By:
Anne Potjans
Series edited by:
Shirley R. Steinberg
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 550
Dimensions:
Height: 225mm,
Width: 150mm,
Weight: 379g
ISBN: 9781636672205
ISBN 10: 1636672205
Series: Counterpoints
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Acknowledgments – Introduction – If You Are Not Angry by Now, You Have Not Been Paying Attention: Analyzing Black Feminist Anger – ""This Hell Where I Live"": Anger in the Poetry of Wanda Coleman – Beloved Anger: The Affective Limits of Liberal Humanism – Tensed from Being Gentle, or Why You Always Fit the Description – ""What Happened, Miss Simone?""."
"Anne Potjans has been a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator grant project ""Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives"" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since October 2022 and currently works on a postdoctoral project tentatively entitled ""Night Shift – Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience."" Earlier in 2022, she completed her dissertation ""‘Why Are You So Angry?’"" – The Uses of Rage and Anger in Black Feminist Literature."" From 2015 to 2022, Anne Potjans has been a lecturer at the American Studies program at Humboldt, where she has taught a variety of classes in North-American Literature and culture. In 2019 she took part in a faculty exchange with the HONORS program at the University of Washington, where she taught a class on Black German and African American cultural and political connections. She is a joint winner of Peter Lang’s Emerging Scholars Competition ""New Perspectives in Black Studies."""
