Description
Book SynopsisAnger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender—but at the same time, being angry always results from the circumstances in which people find themselves. In On Anger, Sue J. Kim opens a stimulating dialogue between cognitive studies and cultural studies to argue that anger is always socially and historically constructed and complexly ideological, and that the predominant individualistic conceptions of anger are insufficient to explain its collective, structural, and historical nature.
On Anger examines the dynamics of racial anger in global late capitalism, bringing into conversation work on political anger in ethnic, postcolonial, and cultural studies with recent studies on emotion in cognitive studies. Kim uses a variety of literary and media texts to show how narratives serve as a means of reflecting on experiences of anger and also how we think about anger—its triggers, its deeper causes, its wrongness or rig
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[Kim’s] very timely book gives us a much needed window through which the collective anger of people in Ferguson and too many other American cities becomes comprehensible. * Melus *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Anger as Cognition
- Chapter 2. Anger as Culture
- Chapter 3. Liberal Anger: Technologies of Anger in Crash
- Chapter 4. Temporality and the Politics of Reading Kingston's The Woman Warrior
- Chapter 5. Anger and Space in Dangarembga's Nervous
- Conditions and The Book of Not
- Chapter 6. Estranging Rage: Ngugi's Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow
- Chapter 7. "This Game Is Rigged": The Wire and Agency
- Attribution
- Conclusion. Anger and Outrage
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
