{"id":2769,"date":"2024-11-15T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/socialexclusion\/?page_id=2769"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T09:46:49","slug":"november-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/socialexclusion\/november-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Cathy Park Hong<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they’re told about their own racial identity?<\/span><\/p>\n

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of “minor feelings”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCathy Park Hong\u2019s brilliant, penetrating, and unforgettable. Minor Feelings is what was missing from our shelf of classics. She brings acute intelligence, scholarly knowledge, and recognizable<\/span> vulnerability to the formation of a new school <\/span>of thought she names minor feelings. In conversation with Sianne Ngai\u2019s Ugly Feelings, Hong charts her emotional life as a Korean American immigrant woman, thereby shattering the concept of a single story of the Asian experience. Minor Feelings builds through what Hong names a \u2018racialized range of emotions,\u2019 which are routinely dismissed by others. To read this book is to become more human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCathy Park Hong\u2019s Minor Feelings truly delivers news we can use. It will educate some and inspire hallelujahs from others; people will productively argue with it, be inspired by it, think and feel with and around it. Hong says the book <\/span>was \u2018a dare to myself,\u2019 and she makes good on it: by writing into the heart of her own discomfort, she emerges with a reckoning destined to become a classic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts and Bluets<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMinor Feelings is an essayistic investigation of those feelings so hard to name, a mix of the elusive, denied, unexpected, and unexplored\u2014a fierce catalogue of that which has not been named and yet won\u2019t be ignored; an electric <\/span>intervention, a provocation, and a renewal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCathy Park Hong\u2019s book is tremendous. The entire time I read, I was hissing yes and yes and YESSSSS and letting my <\/span>minor feelings become major feelings, which I think is the glory of a book like this\u2014it takes all the parts of us that we can barely account for and gives them back fully recognized. It felt like having someone sit me down in a chair and say \u2018Your feelings are real\u2019 and \u2018This is how we got here\u2019 and \u2018Here is a way out\u2019 all at once. It broke my heart with relief.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk and The Sleepwalker\u2019s Guide to Dancing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hong is a Full Professor in English at UC Berkeley. <\/span>She<\/span> is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.<\/span> Her prose and poetry have been published in the New York Times, New Republic, the Guardian, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition\u00a0 By Cathy Park Hong\u00a0 What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they’re told about their own racial identity? For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of “minor feelings”. The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped … <\/p>\n

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