{"product_id":"on-anger-9781477302149","title":"On Anger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnger 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 \u003ci\u003eOn Anger\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Anger\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Anger as Cognition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Anger as Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Liberal Anger: Technologies of Anger in \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Temporality and the Politics of Reading Kingston's \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Anger and Space in Dangarembga's \u003ci\u003eNervous\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConditions and The Book of Not\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Estranging Rage: Ngugi's \u003ci\u003eDevil on the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWizard of the Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. \"This Game Is Rigged\": \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e and Agency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAttribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion. Anger and Outrage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040535052631,"sku":"9781477302149","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477302149.jpg?v=1750947041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-anger-9781477302149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}