The Resource Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
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The item Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning, Cathy Park Hong represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library.
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- Summary
- "Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending 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. 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 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 206 pages
- Contents
-
- United
- Stand up
- The end of white innocence
- Bad English
- An education
- Portrait of an artist
- The indebted
- Isbn
- 9781984820365
- Label
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
- Title
- Minor feelings
- Title remainder
- an Asian American reckoning
- Statement of responsibility
- Cathy Park Hong
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending 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. 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 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hong, Cathy Park,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hong, Cathy Park
- Asian Americans
- Asian American women
- Poets, American
- Asian American women
- Asian Americans
- Poets, American
- Label
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- United -- Stand up -- The end of white innocence -- Bad English -- An education -- Portrait of an artist -- The indebted
- Control code
- 1111378137
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9781984820365
- Lccn
- 2019033869
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111378137
- Label
- Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- United -- Stand up -- The end of white innocence -- Bad English -- An education -- Portrait of an artist -- The indebted
- Control code
- 1111378137
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9781984820365
- Lccn
- 2019033869
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1111378137
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