Description
Title: Minor Feelings: A reckoning on race & the asian condition
Author: HONG CATHY PARK
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 28/04/2020
Imprint: PROFILE BOOKS (UK)
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
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 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.
ISBN: 9781788165587
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 224