具體描述
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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##聽的作者本人讀的有聲書。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."
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##把Asian American的minor feelings寫得非常好，又沉重又警醒，中間有兩節太artsy的不是很喜歡，其他都非常好。Asian American在美國真是主動隱身的人群，不被重視，找不到自己的聲音，也沒有其他人願意聽。
評分##Asian American Women’s Stories
評分##We need potent voices like this. Stop living your fucking model minority hallucinations. Recommended by The New Yorker
評分##關於種族、亞裔經驗、identity politics 2.0, 非常推薦。An Education那一章好喜歡。Portrait of an Artist那一章chilling而動容。
評分##We need potent voices like this. Stop living your fucking model minority hallucinations. Recommended by The New Yorker
評分##配閤當下的stop asian hate運動，常看常新
評分##這本書勇敢，憤怒，金句迭齣。我有種當作者心理醫生的感覺。後三分之一迴憶的部分略流水賬，讓我有點分心，扣一星。
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