· Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking keynote speech “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” is, in many ways, a forerunner of Lilly Dancyger’s compelling anthology Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger. Lorde’s analysis is quick to pivot from the theoretical to specific personal example. Lilly Dancyger adopts a similar rhetorical strategy by collecting twenty-two Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · "Burn It Down is deeply affirming for any woman who has struggled with anger in this difficult world. There is no judgment here; only alchemy." —Kelly Sundberg, author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl "The twenty-two essays collected in Burn It Down are a gift of sanity and clear-eyed moral vision in an increasingly degraded moral world. This book galvanizes women's collective and individual rage, Brand: Basic Books. "Burn It Down is deeply affirming for any woman who has struggled with anger in this difficult world. There is no judgment here; only alchemy." ―Kelly Sundberg, author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl "The twenty-two essays collected in Burn It Down are a gift of sanity and clear-eyed moral vision in an increasingly degraded moral world. This book galvanizes women's collective and individual rage, even as it /5().
Anger isn't just anger; it's "righteous." So it's refreshing that in the essay collection Burn It Down: Women Write About Anger, edited by Lilly Dancyger, anger is given more room to. By Emily Burack October 7, October 9, At the start of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, the editor, Jewish writer Lilly Dancyger, writes that she wanted this book to "be a place where our anger could live, a place for us to take up space after generations of being told to shrink, to rage after a lifetime of being told. Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger Edited by Lilly Dancyger. Seal, $27 (p) ISBN Buy this book. Editor Dancyger collects essays from 22 female writers contemplating (and.
A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writers Women are furious, and we're not keeping it to ourselves any longer. We're expected to be composed and compliant, but in a world that would strip us of our rights, disparage our contributions, and deny us a seat at the table of authority, we're no longer willing to quietly seethe behind tight smiles. We're ready to burn it all down. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Decem. Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking keynote speech “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” is, in many ways, a forerunner of Lilly Dancyger’s compelling anthology Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger. Lorde’s analysis is quick to pivot from the theoretical to specific personal example.
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