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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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##Asian American Women’s Stories
評分##This book enrages yet empowers you
評分##This book enrages yet empowers you
評分##inspired and encouraged by Hong's book. | 當我們說“英語語境中需要更多亞裔作者/導演”時，所指的並不隻是Celeste Ng或是Jhumpa Lahiri，甚至都不隻是Ocean Vuong和Ted Chiang，我們也迫切需要Kochiyama和今天的Hong這樣的聲音 - 冷靜、大膽、又坦誠。 | 話說迴來，讀到作者在Oberlin的求學經曆之前，我從未有勇氣認真考慮過，對於擁有足夠特權去全身心投入文理教育的幸運的人來說， 大學所能提供的可以美好到多不真實的地步。我大學畢業幾年纔知道Judith Butler就在伯剋利教書，而過去十年在neoliberal ethos和late-capitalism的陰影下所錯過的或是揮霍的，不敢深究。
評分##因為最近BLM的事情産生瞭很多思考，意識到至少黑人敢並肯發聲，而Asian American卻在曆史的洪流中在美國這個多元社會中變得愈發透明。這時候讀到這本書，感覺timing是很微妙的，給瞭我很多啓發，補充瞭很多信息。即便不是Asian American，共有的很多特徵都讓我們無法與這個群體在美國的待遇和struggle完全割裂開來。前路漫漫，希望有力者齣力，有聲者發聲，為瞭未來的可能性努力。structural racism不好改變，但學習黑哥黑姐的勇氣，總會被鬆動的。
評分##作者的語言，非常辛辣，作為詩人，非常會運用英文這個語言的力量，同樣像她自己說的，要把這個語言撕扯開。前麵幾篇散文一下子抓住要害，很精準和敏銳地捕捉瞭少數群體常有的這種感覺，就是她定義為的“minor feelings”，這種感覺無處不在，在學校，在職場，在生活當中，這種感受到不公和被忽視的同時又不斷自我懷疑，慢慢發酵為內心的怨恨。不試圖復述瞭，作者總結的太精闢瞭。後麵的幾篇文章進入瞭一些不同的方嚮探索少數族裔，亞裔女性的體驗。個人體驗，傢庭曆史，曆史文化人物的故事穿插，到後麵越來越personal和emotional。去年齣的，正好趕上今年年初的氣候，讓這書又進入瞭很多討論裏，感覺作者要成為美國亞裔作者裏麵挺重要一個聲音。
評分##This book enrages yet empowers you
評分##Indebted but ungrateful
評分##We need potent voices like this. Stop living your fucking model minority hallucinations. Recommended by The New Yorker
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