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.
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.
##听的作者本人读的有声书。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."
评分 评分 评分##天啊,这书太对我胃口了。好久没有这么认真地一字一句地读一本英文书了,可能因为每天被要求读太多的英文文献,所以再不想认真地读英文小说。这本书,从开头那神经质式的骚动,就开始吸引着我一路向下,如果说前四章只是让我颇有共鸣,从education一章开始,我就开始不断反省自己的人生,而关于Theresa Hak Kyung Cha那被忽略的奸杀,让我不禁毛骨悚然,又开始去思考为什么过去这么多年了,Asian Women的境遇依旧如此惊人地相似,临结尾处的通灵又像是一种复仇,鸡皮疙瘩全起,但又觉得隐隐地想捶墙。最后一章是更加强烈的宣言,什么感谢,根本就是一堆的欠账,但是,白人性如此内化的当下,要怎么继续走下去呢?谢谢Cathy表达的所有愤怒,谢谢她给我带来的反省和思考,一旦知道,就无法回头了。
评分##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...
评分 评分##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。
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