书籍介绍
这本书最锋利的地方,不在它系统论证了种族议题,而在于它给一种说不清、道不明的边缘情绪找到了语言。作者把亚裔在美国成长中那种羞耻、猜疑与忧郁,命名为「minor feelings」——当美国式乐观主义与你自身的现实相冲突时,那种「你相信了自己被骗的谎言」的窒息感。读者反复提及的,正是这种被精准命名的体验:做不了「顺从的亚裔女性」就招致敌意,却因知道「我们不会被相信」而连自己都不相信自己,最终把矛头转向内部,怪自己太张扬、太骄傲。书中最具争议的,是「负债感」这一论断:被压迫者以为欠美国、欠父母一条命,于是成为新自由主义最理想的顺从主体。它不提供和解的安慰,而是逼你直视那道被刻意隐形的伤口。适合愿意把阅读当成自我诘问的人。
作者简介
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, McSweeney’s, 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.