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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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About This Book
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. 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. Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship in a search to both uncover and speak the truth.
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"[Hong's] tone can sound petulant and aggrieved, sly and comic, sometimes all at once ..."
"Title aside, nothing is minor about Hong's taut, sharp collection."
"Some lines in Minor Feelings flow just as a lyric would while others rail against the English language and reject literary forms long cemented within canonical texts."
"Hong's metaphors are crafted with stinging care."
"offers a fierce excavation of her experience as an Asian American woman living and working as a poet and artist."
"Minor Feelings begins with intraracial antagonism, but it ends by trying to envision something closer to a form of intraracial solidarity."
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