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Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—Women authors—History and criticism—Theory, etc [Browse]
• Anger in literature [Browse]
• African American women—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Feminist literature [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 550. [More in this series]
• Counterpoints ; vol. 550

Summary note

"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 slavery's and colonialism's afterlives. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Other title(s)

Anger and rage in Black feminist literature

ISBN

• 9781636672212 (paperback)
• 1636672213 (paperback)
• 9781636672205 (hardcover)
• 1636672205 (hardcover)

LCCN

2023054847

OCLC

1417600625

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