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(0)Cathy Park Hong
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month
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AAPI Heritage Month
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
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Als Tochter koreanischer Einwanderer wächst Cathy Park Hong voller Scham, Misstrauen und Melancholie auf. Erst später versteht sie, dass diese "Störgefühle", wie sie sie nennt, eine Bandbreite negativer Emotionen, immer dann aufkommen, wenn sie anti-asiatischen Rassismuserfahrungen ausgesetzt ist. Mit Sinn für Komik und cooler Intelligenz liefert sie ausgehend von ihrer eigenen Lebensgeschichte eine eingehende Betrachtung davon, wo Menschen mit...
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Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting -- that the "ordinary" would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination...