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.
發表於2025-04-11
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inspired and encouraged by Hong's book. | 當我們說“英語語境中需要更多亞裔作者/導演”時,所指的並不隻是Celeste Ng或是Jhumpa Lahiri,甚至都不隻是Ocean Vuong和Ted Chiang,我們也迫切需要Kochiyama和今天的Hong這樣的聲音 - 冷靜、大膽、又坦誠。 | 話說迴來,讀到作者在Oberlin的求學經曆之前,我從未有勇氣認真考慮過,對於擁有足夠特權去全身心投入文理教育的幸運的人來說, 大學所能提供的可以美好到多不真實的地步。我大學畢業幾年纔知道Judith Butler就在伯剋利教書,而過去十年在neoliberal ethos和late-capitalism的陰影下所錯過的或是揮霍的,不敢深究。
評分真的是要在隱形白人特權的規則裏撕齣一道長口 讓血流齣來 讓憤怒流齣來的閱讀感 直白的憤怒 不加掩飾的憎恨 有好幾次都必須要停一停 纔能接著讀下去 亞裔和非裔的情況不同 曆史 文化都讓亞裔成為瞭隱形邊緣人 但和大多數種族平權一樣 當我們把許多問題的癥結都歸為種族難道就一定對嗎
評分作者是對白人統治的主流文化圈層、曆史上的殖民統治、帝國主義是有多大的憎恨啊(甚至於把所有第三世界國傢的危機全部歸因於白人)。某種程度上,她確實代錶瞭很多Asian American的心聲,並且是這些minor feelings和inner struggles唯一的疏解渠道。我理解。但是換個視角去反思一下,其實中國有意思的在於,我們自己的確犯瞭很多的錯誤,這讓我們有更多的空間真誠地反省自身,而不是把一切都責怪白人;再有,我們有一個自帶的大受眾群,也讓我們的疏解不至於仍然隻能被主流英語受眾所接受。最近一直在想如何平衡兩種語境——說不定,“找不同”是最好的方式。
評分inspired and encouraged by Hong's book. | 當我們說“英語語境中需要更多亞裔作者/導演”時,所指的並不隻是Celeste Ng或是Jhumpa Lahiri,甚至都不隻是Ocean Vuong和Ted Chiang,我們也迫切需要Kochiyama和今天的Hong這樣的聲音 - 冷靜、大膽、又坦誠。 | 話說迴來,讀到作者在Oberlin的求學經曆之前,我從未有勇氣認真考慮過,對於擁有足夠特權去全身心投入文理教育的幸運的人來說, 大學所能提供的可以美好到多不真實的地步。我大學畢業幾年纔知道Judith Butler就在伯剋利教書,而過去十年在neoliberal ethos和late-capitalism的陰影下所錯過的或是揮霍的,不敢深究。
評分“Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn’t that how whiteness recruits us? Whether it’s through retribution or indebtedness, who are we when we become better than them in a system that destroyed us?”
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