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,...
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.
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Re...
Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University–Newark MFA program in poetry.
If the indebted Asian immigrant thinks they owe their lives to America, the child thinks they owe their livehood to their parents for their suffering. The indebted Asian American is therefore the ideal neoliberal subject. I accept that the burden of history is solely on my shoulders. That it's up to me to earn back reparations for the losses my parents have incurred. And to do so, I must, without complain, prove myself in the work force. indebtness is not the same thing as gratitude.
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I can tell you I have attracted all kinds of wild, vituperative behavior from white people because I never play the role of compliant Asian woman. Sharma’s experiences enrage me but they don’t surprise me. But because we know we won’t be believed, we don’t quite believe it ourselves. So we blame ourselves for being too outspoken or too proud or too ambitious. (查看原文)
書還是值得一讀的，12347章都是很真實的經歷。英語不好被像toddler對待，極其普通白男或老人和年輕亞結婚…white ppl are pretentious and HYPOCRITICAL. true，但是作者大學date白人現在又嫁了一個白人老公，還是變成了activist on the street, colonized in the sheet. 罵了白人一整本書結果自己也變成了偽...書還是值得一讀的，12347章都是很真實的經歷。英語不好被像toddler對待，極其普通白男或老人和年輕亞結婚…white ppl are pretentious and HYPOCRITICAL. true，但是作者大學date白人現在又嫁了一個白人老公，還是變成了activist on the street, colonized in the sheet. 罵了白人一整本書結果自己也變成了偽君子。怎麼對待白人？確實有好的一面，但像菲律賓那種當狗一樣我做不到。離岸愛國來助長虛無的自尊，選擇忽視自己最開始逃避的原因，can’t.或許選擇消融國籍，但asian需要自己出來捍衛自尊.白人國家：「we allow you to be here,so stfu and be grateful」(展开)
书的封面内页上有一段这样描述的话： Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. 我不认为这本书讲的是“fresh truths”, 我觉得这...
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1 有用 至秦 2022-01-17 13:06:58
最后一章“The Indebted“写得很不错！
10 有用 锐 2020-04-22 11:54:55
We need potent voices like this. Stop living your fucking model minority hallucinations. Recommended by The New Yorker
2 有用 喜喜 2021-02-05 12:03:33
作者为韩裔美国人，写的在美国经历的种族歧视等问题。在国外住久了，其实不管第几代，只要家里是移民，长大了还只会和自己的人玩，虽然跨越了语言的障碍，但是文化的差异却没法克服。还有，这种被歧视的经历，感觉谁都能写出不少。
6 有用 philasophie 2020-07-14 12:09:43
因为最近BLM的事情产生了很多思考，意识到至少黑人敢并肯发声，而Asian American却在历史的洪流中在美国这个多元社会中变得愈发透明。这时候读到这本书，感觉timing是很微妙的，给了我很多启发，补充了很多信息。即便不是Asian American，共有的很多特征都让我们无法与这个群体在美国的待遇和struggle完全割裂开来。前路漫漫，希望有力者出力，有声者发声，为了未来的可能性努力。s... 因为最近BLM的事情产生了很多思考，意识到至少黑人敢并肯发声，而Asian American却在历史的洪流中在美国这个多元社会中变得愈发透明。这时候读到这本书，感觉timing是很微妙的，给了我很多启发，补充了很多信息。即便不是Asian American，共有的很多特征都让我们无法与这个群体在美国的待遇和struggle完全割裂开来。前路漫漫，希望有力者出力，有声者发声，为了未来的可能性努力。structural racism不好改变，但学习黑哥黑姐的勇气，总会被松动的。 (展开)
3 有用 青さん 2024-07-30 13:59:20 美国
書還是值得一讀的，12347章都是很真實的經歷。英語不好被像toddler對待，極其普通白男或老人和年輕亞結婚…white ppl are pretentious and HYPOCRITICAL. true，但是作者大學date白人現在又嫁了一個白人老公，還是變成了activist on the street, colonized in the sheet. 罵了白人一整本書結果自己也變成了偽... 書還是值得一讀的，12347章都是很真實的經歷。英語不好被像toddler對待，極其普通白男或老人和年輕亞結婚…white ppl are pretentious and HYPOCRITICAL. true，但是作者大學date白人現在又嫁了一個白人老公，還是變成了activist on the street, colonized in the sheet. 罵了白人一整本書結果自己也變成了偽君子。怎麼對待白人？確實有好的一面，但像菲律賓那種當狗一樣我做不到。離岸愛國來助長虛無的自尊，選擇忽視自己最開始逃避的原因，can’t.或許選擇消融國籍，但asian需要自己出來捍衛自尊.白人國家：「we allow you to be here,so stfu and be grateful」 (展开)