{"title":"If You're Not Angry, You're Not Paying Attention: Anger, Empathy, and Activism in Crisis","authors":"Catherine Heiner","doi":"10.1353/tt.2023.0011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This question, which provides both the title and general form for Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s play, initially appears deceptively simple. Taking up Nelson-Greenberg’s question as a challenge, I consider how anger operates in our particularly tense and uncertain moment. After all, what is anger? Should it be considered a trait—part of an individual’s inherent personality revealed through their thoughts and actions? Or a state—a temporary condition that individuals experience for a short time before transitioning to a different condition (“Difference”)? What might it mean to “feel” anger? What sensations, reactions, or impulses do we associate with anger? And whose anger do we justify?","PeriodicalId":209215,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Topics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Theatre Topics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tt.2023.0011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This question, which provides both the title and general form for Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s play, initially appears deceptively simple. Taking up Nelson-Greenberg’s question as a challenge, I consider how anger operates in our particularly tense and uncertain moment. After all, what is anger? Should it be considered a trait—part of an individual’s inherent personality revealed through their thoughts and actions? Or a state—a temporary condition that individuals experience for a short time before transitioning to a different condition (“Difference”)? What might it mean to “feel” anger? What sensations, reactions, or impulses do we associate with anger? And whose anger do we justify?