Why Are You So Angry?

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."

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?".