On anger
Subtitle: race, cognition, narrative
By: by Sue J. Kim
Edition: First edition.
Series: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780292748415
Subjects: Social aspects; Anger; Anger in literature; Mass media
Description: "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 rightness. The narratives she studies include the film Crash, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow, and the HBO series The Wire. Kim concludes by distinguishing frustration and outrage from anger through a consideration of Stéphane Hessel's call to arms, Indignez-vous! One of the few works that focuses on both anger and race, On Anger demonstrates that race--including whiteness--is central to our conceptions and experiences of anger." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Anger as cognition; title: Anger as culture; title: Liberal anger: technologies of anger in Crash; title: Temporality and the politics of reading Kingston's  The woman warrior; title: Anger and space in Dangarembga's Nervous conditions and The book of not; title: Estranging rage: Ngugi's Devil on the cross and Wizard of the crow; title: "This game is rigged": The wire and agency; title: Attribution; title: Conclusion: anger and outrage.