Minority feelings

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

☆ Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, nominated for Goodreads' Best Nonfiction of the Year, and the author was named Time's Person of the Year for this book☆ "No one cares, no one takes us seriously, we have no sense of existence." A deafening Asian voice, a tearful cry that stings prejudice☆ Combining autobiography, essays, and cultural criticism, this sharp criticism of contemporary American literature, contemporary art, Hollywood, and social movements subverts tradition and is full of witty remarks. Every page is worth underlining☆ Racial innuendos in Hollywood movies, the shame brought about by poor English, pandering and self-doubt... The plight of ethnic minorities is isomorphic with the broader "minority" group. These anxieties have never been described so accurately☆ Books of the Year by Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Statesman, and the New York Public Library——————————————
Always working harder than those around them, yet constantly experiencing depression; being berated by white people like children by their parents; feeling ashamed of not being able to speak authentic English; having their writing shaped by white imaginations, deliberately avoiding racial labels in their writing... Korean-American writer Cathy Parker Hong uses small incidents to deeply analyze the range of emotions experienced by Asian Americans on a daily basis, such as shame, paranoia, depression, and self-doubt, calling them "minor feelings." These feelings reflect important issues such as the current state of Asian Americans' lives, the myth of the model minority, the dilemma of personal political identity, and racial consciousness.
Starting from her personal experience, the author also extends her writing to the depths of American history and culture, analyzing the racial tensions in social news, popular culture, and historical events, and offering insightful commentary on writers such as Salinger, Wang Ouxing, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Wes Anderson, while offering pointed critiques of contemporary American literature and art. In "A Portrait of an Artist," Hong also reflects from a female perspective on the rape and murder of Korean-American writer Cha Hak-kyung in the 1980s, examining the living conditions of Asian women.
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【Comment】
Cathy Parker Hong tells us what it means and what it feels like to be an Asian woman today. The appearance of this book is so necessary. - Nguyen Thanh Viet, Vietnamese-American novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This is brilliant and the book that is missing from the classic bibliography. Cathy Parker Hong depicts the emotional life of Asian American women and breaks the single narrative about the Asian experience. Reading this book will make people more human. - Claudia Rankine, American poet Cathy Parker Hong analyzes the experience of being an Asian American and conducts a complex reflection on racial consciousness in the United States. She combines cultural criticism with personal stories to show the shame, confusion and changes felt by the daughter of Korean immigrants. - "Time"
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this book has so many brilliant ideas that you can't help but underline almost every page. -Electronic Literature
Cathy Parker Hong's unrestrained writing breaks the closed loop of Asian American discourse. She touches on the myth of the model minority, the pain of first-generation immigrant childhoods, and passionately describes how Asian Americans are dismissed as menial "carpenter ants in the service industry." She also offers a wealth of detail. — The News

2024-02-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

276

9787208185661