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Minor feelings: a reckoning on race and the Asian condition

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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.

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Series Title

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Call Number

305 HON m

Publisher

New York : Profile Book Ltd., 2020

Collation

206 p. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781788165594

Classification

300

Content Type

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Media Type

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Carrier Type

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Social Groups
Social Science
Ethnic & racial groups

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Statement of Responsibility

Cathy Hong Park

Other Information

Level

High School

Book Segment

Reading for pleasure

Reading Level

Independent

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