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This article examines interactions between bodies and anger in African American women’s writing. The goal is to understand how, in Sula by Toni Morrison, and Push by Sapphire, female bodies are the primary target of anger as a forbidden and repressed emotion. In Sula, women follow an internalized anger when they amputate various parts of their own bodies or set fire to their close relatives. In Push, women are obese and torture themselves by outrageously overeating, making their ever-larger bodies the receptacle of an anger which grows proportionately. The body of the text undergoes a similar treatment : Sula is marked by reiterated ellipses while Push uses excessive language choked with repetitions and insults. By emphasizing the opposition between making flesh disappear or proliferate, this article questions the subversive potential of the female body as both the agent and the target of anger.