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.
(查看原文)
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)
It’s important to remember what’s intrinsically implied by the role of inheritor is a more meaningful role as originator. You make your own identity, a constant becoming that can never be reduced to s...It’s important to remember what’s intrinsically implied by the role of inheritor is a more meaningful role as originator. You make your own identity, a constant becoming that can never be reduced to someone else’s. (展开)
“A Portrait of An Artist” & “An Education”格外好看，写女性文学楷模和女性创作者的difficult relationship。作者本人也是个“棘手”的女性，乍读不会让人特别愉快，但习惯这种锋利之后，偶然暴露出的温暖和脆弱才格外让人动容。当然主要魅力还是来自诚实！
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...
(展开)
![[美国] 凯茜·朴·洪](https://img1.doubanio.com/view/personage/m/public/804de5cea026a1800610c1fc4ad38da9.jpg)
凯茜·朴·洪 作者
赫恩曼尼
上海人民出版社2024版
跳跃的汤圆
文景
上海人民出版社2024版
rhombussss
上海人民出版社2024版
停笔久悲不成悲
上海人民出版社2024版
豆包子豆儿呢
上海人民出版社2024版
Ava
Frank_97
太阳的蓝
1 有用 mipropiocentro 2024-02-06 11:58:35 加拿大
It’s important to remember what’s intrinsically implied by the role of inheritor is a more meaningful role as originator. You make your own identity, a constant becoming that can never be reduced to s... It’s important to remember what’s intrinsically implied by the role of inheritor is a more meaningful role as originator. You make your own identity, a constant becoming that can never be reduced to someone else’s. (展开)
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。
1 有用 子扉我[已注销] 2020-03-10 15:50:05
https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2020/03/10/minor-feelings/
2 有用 阿枣 2022-02-24 05:47:09
“A Portrait of An Artist” & “An Education”格外好看，写女性文学楷模和女性创作者的difficult relationship。作者本人也是个“棘手”的女性，乍读不会让人特别愉快，但习惯这种锋利之后，偶然暴露出的温暖和脆弱才格外让人动容。当然主要魅力还是来自诚实！
1 有用 艺艺艺仔 2025-09-06 20:40:10 澳大利亚
很多段落共情到难受。最近最让我有感触的一段是：如果时光机器被发明，只有白人可以穿越时光（甚至只有白人男性），因为其他的人如果来到错误的年代/地点，很可能会被羞辱、奴役、杀害…按照这个思路呀，reverse racism真的存在吗？（当然不啦）