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Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her.
With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.
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##Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 那篇真是好啊
评分##天啊，这书太对我胃口了。好久没有这么认真地一字一句地读一本英文书了，可能因为每天被要求读太多的英文文献，所以再不想认真地读英文小说。这本书，从开头那神经质式的骚动，就开始吸引着我一路向下，如果说前四章只是让我颇有共鸣，从education一章开始，我就开始不断反省自己的人生，而关于Theresa Hak Kyung Cha那被忽略的奸杀，让我不禁毛骨悚然，又开始去思考为什么过去这么多年了，Asian Women的境遇依旧如此惊人地相似，临结尾处的通灵又像是一种复仇，鸡皮疙瘩全起，但又觉得隐隐地想捶墙。最后一章是更加强烈的宣言，什么感谢，根本就是一堆的欠账，但是，白人性如此内化的当下，要怎么继续走下去呢？谢谢Cathy表达的所有愤怒，谢谢她给我带来的反省和思考，一旦知道，就无法回头了。
评分##Asian American Women’s Stories
评分##Asian American Women’s Stories
评分##We need potent voices like this. Stop living your fucking model minority hallucinations. Recommended by The New Yorker
评分##inspired and encouraged by Hong's book. | 当我们说“英语语境中需要更多亚裔作者/导演”时，所指的并不只是Celeste Ng或是Jhumpa Lahiri，甚至都不只是Ocean Vuong和Ted Chiang，我们也迫切需要Kochiyama和今天的Hong这样的声音 - 冷静、大胆、又坦诚。 | 话说回来，读到作者在Oberlin的求学经历之前，我从未有勇气认真考虑过，对于拥有足够特权去全身心投入文理教育的幸运的人来说， 大学所能提供的可以美好到多不真实的地步。我大学毕业几年才知道Judith Butler就在伯克利教书，而过去十年在neoliberal ethos和late-capitalism的阴影下所错过的或是挥霍的，不敢深究。
评分##Asian American Women’s Stories
评分##真的是要在隐形白人特权的规则里撕出一道长口 让血流出来 让愤怒流出来的阅读感 直白的愤怒 不加掩饰的憎恨 有好几次都必须要停一停 才能接着读下去 亚裔和非裔的情况不同 历史 文化都让亚裔成为了隐形边缘人 但和大多数种族平权一样 当我们把许多问题的症结都归为种族难道就一定对吗
评分##听的作者本人读的有声书。Such an agonized pursuit of liberation and poignant caption of the self-hatred of Asian Americans. “In the popular imagination, Asian Americans inhabit a vague purgatorial status: not white enough nor black enough; distrusted by African Americans, ignored by whites, unless we’re being used by whites to keep the black man down."
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