The Potential of Anger in Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제54집 1호, 117~135쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2022.05.31

영문 초록

Steph Cha’s novel Your House Will Pay depicts the history of hurt and hate between Koreans and African Americans in LA represented by the African American family of Shawn and the Korean family of Grace. This paper explores the potential of anger as an affect to incite interracial understanding in the context of the 1992 LA uprising and its aftermath. By focusing on the analysis of the scene where Shawn confronts a Korean store owner Frank, this paper demonstrates how hate between the two men changes into anger. This distinction drawn between anger and hate shows that the direction of anger is more ambiguous than hate’s oppositional direction. The disorienting effect of anger in the scene is then explained through Sara Ahmed’s concept of orientation to highlight the possibility of reorientation that anger opens between the two races. Furthermore, different bodily manifestations of anger that reflect its ambiguity are exemplified by Shawn’s controlled anger that helps him cope with trauma and Darryl’s uncontrolled anger that results in shooting Jung-Ja Han.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. The Ambiguity of Anger Reflected in Shawn’s and Darryl’s Anger

Ⅲ. The Affect of Anger in Relation to Hate

Ⅳ. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Steph Cha 1992 LA Uprising Black and Korean conflict Anger Orientation