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Article: The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2002
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Linda M. Grasso. The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. 184 pp. $49.95 cloth/$18.95 paper.
In this study of literature by black and white American women writers before the Civil War, Linda Grasso rejects the focus on domestic ideology that she thinks has dominated feminist literary criticism and history, in favor of what she calls a paradigm of anger. To read for anger, she holds, is to illuminate "an unrecognized tradition in American literature." Anger is "a mode of analysis" in which one looks for the presence of anger in a text. It is also "the basis of an aesthetic" in which ...