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All the Feels (COMLIT 60AC) (Conformity (The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison…

- - - - The idea of shame and self-contempt, and how they manifest, are the main focuses of these piece. Pecola's need to conform comes from a deep feeling of shame because of her skin color, external beauty, and toxic household. On top of that, Cholly's self-contempt, which Tomkins describes as a complete rejection of the self, stems from trauma endured in childhood and leads him down a destructive path because he doesn't care what happens to himself.
  - - - "Mourning and Melancholia," Sigmund Freud :
        
        Freud clarifies the difference between mourning, which is a natural part of living and is attached to a specific entity, and melancholia, which is characterized as a disease and the melancholic person is experiencing the loss of something intangible, such as an ideal. The understanding of the concept of melancholia is necessary in understanding the concept of racial melancholia.
      - Since melancholia is the loss of something intangible, like an ideal, racial melancholia is the loss of one's connection to one's culture, often felt by immigrants or children of immigrants, much like the protagonist of Woman Warrior
- - - - Baldwin explores the death of his father, who was haunted by the past traumas of racism. Baldwin had previously not understood his father and thought him insane, until he experienced the same racism his father had, making him realize why his father was both fearful and aggressive towards white people.
    - - A one-woman play chronicling the LA riots that occurred as a result of the pent-up racial tensions, and was exacerbated by the beating of Rodney King. All dialogue used are taken straight from over 300 interviews that Smith conducted in the area during that time.
        Both "Beyond Anger" and "The Aptness of Anger" are attached to this work because while Rodney King received justice, much destruction to LA was done, and tensions between the black community and other minorities like Hispanics and Koreans were worsened, therefore, it somewhat follows Nussbaum's argument. Despite this, this level of anger could be considered apt, similar to Srinivasan's argument.
    - - Ahmed presents a hypothesis that says that emotions, like fear, are caused by culture, not psychology. This results in the "othering" (or the marginalization) of certain groups, centering on a particular interaction between a fearful, young, white boy and a black person
  - - - Lorde explains how poetry is seen as fanciful and whimsical when in reality, it's one of the most powerful ways women can put their thoughts and emotions on paper and turn it into tangible action
    - - Ernst Bloch states that hope itself has disappointment interwoven into its very meaning, "it is not confidence." Hope is an anticipatory feeling, and Munoz draws on this detail of Bloch's definition of hope by applying it to queer theory, connecting it to queerness as a utopia, or something not-quite-here.
        While anger was a primary emotion for LGBTQ+ activism, hope was also necessary, more specifically, the focus needed to shift from the here-and-now (same-sex marriage, military service) to the future.
        
        There's a section of Munoz's argument which talks about the "anticipatory illumination of art...helping us see the not-yet-conscious," similar to how Lorde focuses on art helping bring to life intangible thoughts and emotions
    - - Deborah Gould, Moving Politics
        
        Gran Fury, Selected Works
        
        Gran Fury was one of the groups that was an offshoot of ACT UP, and was a large contributor to the political art that came out of the crisis.
        
        This work details ACT UP's protests against the government and other large industries due to negligence towards the AIDS crisis because it affected minority populations to a greater degree. The organization turned grief felt towards the death of loved ones into anger towards those who neglected the issue, thereby weaponizing emotion into a political force.