Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (English) Paperba

Description: Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIMES 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness"Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human."—Claudia Rankine, author of CitizenIn development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee • One of Times 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, New Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New York Public Library, and Book Riot 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 Hongs 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 youre told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, theyre dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poets 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 writers search to both uncover and speak the truth.Praise for Minor Feelings"Hong begins her new book of essays with a bang. . . .The essays wander a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. . . . Minor Feelings is studded with moments [of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness."—The New York Times"Hong uses her own experiences as a jumping off point to examine race and emotion in the United States."—Newsweek"Powerful . . . [Hong] brings together memoiristic personal essay and reflection, historical accounts and modern reporting, and other works of art and writing, in order to amplify a multitude of voices and capture Asian America as a collection of contradictions. She does so with sharp wit and radical transparency."—Salon FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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, McSweeneys, 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. In 2021, she was named one of Times 100 most influential people in the world. Review "[A] formidable new essay collection . . . I read Minor Feelings in a fugue of enveloping recognition and distancing flinch. . . . [Cathy Park] Hong is writing in agonized pursuit of a liberation that doesnt look white—a new sound, a new affect, a new consciousness—and the result feels like what she was waiting for."—Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror"Minor Feelings is a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her lifes flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences."—NPR"Hong dissects her experiences as an Asian American to create an intricate meditation on racial awareness in the U.S. Through a combination of cultural criticism and personal stories, Hong, a poet, lays bare the shame and confusion she felt in her youth as the daughter of Korean immigrants, and the way those feelings morphed as she grew older. From analyzing Richard Pryors stand-up to interrogating her relationship with the English language, Hong underscores essential themes of identity and otherness."—Time"Cathy Park Hongs new memoir confronts the tough questions of Asian American identity. Drawing its title from Hongs theory regarding the impact of racial stereotypes and lies on ethnic minorities, this memoir-in-essays is a must-read at a time of rising racist violence and distrust."—Bustle"An incendiary nonfiction book about a pressing social issue of the day . . . With its mix of the personal and political, Minor Feelings is the kind of trenchant social critique thats bound to get people talking."—BuzzFeed"Hong busts out of the closed loop of Asian American discourse and takes off at a run. Its not that she doesnt address the model minority myth, the brutality of casual racism, or the mortifications of a first-gen childhood; she writes passionately about how Asians are dismissed, the lowly carpenter ants of the service industry. Its just that she also makes every immigrant talking point, as she calls them, viscerally specific. . . . Hongs essays make a case for solidarity that begins at self-awareness."—GEN"At-times funny, often deeply thought-provoking work . . . Minor Feelings is an urgent consideration of identity, social structures, and artistic practice. Its a necessary intervention in a world burgeoning with creativity but stymied by a lack of language and ability to grapple with nuance. Hong takes a step in remedying that."—Chicago Review of Books"Self aware and relentlessly sharp essays. Nimble, smart, and deliberate, Minor Feelings is a major conversation starter."—Marie Claire"With radical candor, Cathy Hong Park critically examines what it means to be Asian American today and challenges herself and her readers to abandon the idea of a monolithic Asian American experience and instead acknowledge a range of racialized emotions which have been heretofore dismissed."—Ms."Part memoir, part cultural criticism, the poet and essayists Cathy Park Hongs first book of prose had me underlining and annotating nearly every page."—R. O. Kwon, Electric Literature Review Quote "[A] formidable new essay collection . . . I read Minor Feelings in a fugue of enveloping recognition and distancing flinch. . . . [Cathy Park] Hong is writing in agonized pursuit of a liberation that doesnt look white--a new sound, a new affect, a new consciousness--and the result feels like what she was waiting for." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror " Minor Feelings is a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her lifes flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences." --NPR "Hong dissects her experiences as an Asian American to create an intricate meditation on racial awareness in the U.S. Through a combination of cultural criticism and personal stories, Hong, a poet, lays bare the shame and confusion she felt in her youth as the daughter of Korean immigrants, and the way those feelings morphed as she grew older. From analyzing Richard Pryors stand-up to interrogating her relationship with the English language, Hong underscores essential themes of identity and otherness." -- Time "Cathy Park Hongs new memoir confronts the tough questions of Asian American identity. Drawing its title from Hongs theory regarding the impact of racial stereotypes and lies on ethnic minorities, this memoir-in-essays is a must-read at a time of rising racist violence and distrust." -- Bustle "An incendiary nonfiction book about a pressing social issue of the day . . . With its mix of the personal and political, Minor Feelings is the kind of trenchant social critique thats bound to get people talking." -- BuzzFeed "Hong busts out of the closed loop of Asian American discourse and takes off at a run. Its not that she doesnt address the model minority myth, the brutality of casual racism, or the mortifications of a first-gen childhood; she writes passionately about how Asians are dismissed, the lowly carpenter ants of the service industry. Its just that she also makes every immigrant talking point, as she calls them, viscerally specific. . . . Hongs essays make a case for solidarity that begins at self-awareness." -- GEN "At-times funny, often deeply thought-provoking work . . . Minor Feelings is an urgent consideration of identity, social structures, and artistic practice. Its a necessary intervention in a world burgeoning with creativity but stymied by a lack of language and ability to grapple with nuance. Hong takes a step in remedying that." -- Chicago Review of Books "Self aware and relentlessly sharp essays. Nimble, smart, and deliberate, Minor Feelings is a major conversation starter." -- Marie Claire "With radical candor, Cathy Hong Park critically examines what it means to be Asian American today and challenges herself and her readers to abandon the idea of a monolithic Asian American experience and instead acknowledge a range of racialized emotions which have been heretofore dismissed." -- Ms. "Part memoir, part cultural criticism, the poet and essayists Cathy Park Hongs first book of prose had me underlining and annotating nearly every page." --R. O. Kwon, Electric Literature Excerpt from Book United My depression began with an imaginary tic. For an hour, I stared at the mirror, waiting for my eyelid to flutter or the corner of my mouth to tingle. "Do you see my tic?" I asked my husband. "No." "Do you see my tic now?" I asked my husband. "No." "Do you see my tic now?" I asked my husband. "No!" In my early twenties, I used to have an actual tic in my right eyelid that spread so that my right facial muscles contracted my eye into an occasional Popeye squint. I found out I had a rare neuromuscular condition called hemifacial spasm, triggered by two cranial nerves behind my ear that became twisted. In 2004, when I was twenty-six years old, a doctor in Pittsburgh corrected my spasms by inserting a tiny sponge to separate the two entwined nerves. Now, seven years later, I was convinced my spasms had returned-- Details ISBN1984820389 Author Cathy Park Hong Short Title Minor Feelings Pages 224 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1984820389 ISBN-13 9781984820389 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-03-02 Subtitle An Asian American Reckoning DEWEY 305.4895/073 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-03-02 NZ Release Date 2021-03-02 US Release Date 2021-03-02 UK Release Date 2021-03-02 Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint One World Books Place of Publication New York Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131282496;

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