具体描述
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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##把Asian American的minor feelings写得非常好，又沉重又警醒，中间有两节太artsy的不是很喜欢，其他都非常好。Asian American在美国真是主动隐身的人群，不被重视，找不到自己的声音，也没有其他人愿意听。
##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。
##每一个字母都在呐喊，每一个单词都在燃烧，有时甚至会读到喘不过气来。我一度因为“用身份做文章是没有创造力、懦弱的表现”这样的指责而迷茫无措，但identity politics就是房间里的大象，隐形才是一种特权。
##Asian American Women’s Stories
##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
##Asian American Women’s Stories
##Asian American Women’s Stories
要是早一周读了这本书，刚录的播客也许能讲出更多内容，但在种族化的情绪和体验如此集体、如此鲜明的此刻阅读这本书，一天有一天的新意义。我反复咀嚼。感谢Cathy Park Hong为描述这些种族化的边缘感受提供了语言，而只有去直面、去描述这些感受，它们才能被动员、被激进化，才不致被白人中心的历史轻易掸掉。离开亚洲后，盎格鲁的世界把亚洲、亚裔按在我的心里，在我的身份认知里不断叠加崭新的亦是无比古老的痕迹。类比性别，One is not born an Asian but becomes one. 最近我常说：“我好想念亚洲。”我也想念河内山百合、想念Theresa Hak Kyung Cha、想念一座座Chinatown，我的亚洲性来源于我对自己不曾经历、不曾到过的历史和地理产生乡愁、感到沉重。
##每一个字母都在呐喊，每一个单词都在燃烧，有时甚至会读到喘不过气来。我一度因为“用身份做文章是没有创造力、懦弱的表现”这样的指责而迷茫无措，但identity politics就是房间里的大象，隐形才是一种特权。