Abstract
Abstract: Described as a period of Sturm und Drang , or a time of storm and stress, adolescence is often regarded as a turbulent time. As such, adolescents find little to no resolve during this stage, leaving them either longing for the days of childhood or anticipating adulthood. However, Black girlhood studies scholars like Ruth Nicole Brown and Nazera Sadiq Wright have demonstrated how Black girls have always developed their own epistemologies amid adolescence, illustrating Black girlhood as a space of potentiality. Drawing from Brown and Wright’s respective frameworks, I examine how Kacen Callender’s Hurricane Child (2018) depicts Black girl adolescence as a stage of possibility, subverting notions of Sturm und Drang and conventions of the young adult literature genre.