Author : Min K. Kang
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ISBN 13 : 9781938055287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (552 download)
Book Synopsis Diary of a K-drama Villain by : Min K. Kang
Download or read book Diary of a K-drama Villain written by Min K. Kang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. THE DIARY OF A K-DRAMA VILLAIN questions, 'what's in between?' to plumb the self and selfie as vernacular subject--as vernacular object--as vernacular space as in '/...our flops on perf English/'. Kang's poems thread body, virtuality, homesphere, suppositions of sexuality via the tilt of the `Asiaphile' through language and cultural registry, 'Here are some fortune cookie truths/to be planted in our neighborhood'. I finished this book and said, 'I'm so Min.'--mg roberts Min Kang's hilarious and terrifying debut collection exposes the drama of our mediated late capitalist everyday--where choice appears to be (equally) endless and meaningless and a heroic effort is required to ensure that the normal is laboriously maintained. This action- thriller-meets-absurdist-ritual-theater- on-a-reality-TV-show-with-'ing. glish'- translation-issues is all the more intense for being both international in scope and at the same time contained by the 'DOMUSPHERE.'--Laura Mullen Min K. Kang's THE DIARY OF A K-DRAMA VILLAIN is alive and subversive: each line undermining misperceptions of the Asian female condition with vinegary wit. Kang reclaims the lyric for the digital age; her style is the Engrish IM, the confessional missive as late night text, shredding that Anna May Wong avatar with vengeance. A startling and vibrant debut.--Cathy Park Hong Like a series of `crying selfies, ' these poems swoon and feint--what appear to be baubles of a luxurious boredom are, in fact, wry acts of cultural vivisection, diagnosing the quotidian gore required to carve the feminine ideal out of a live body. Kang brings to the fore the brutal fact that, in American culture, the feminine ideal is a construct essential to the core of white identity and creeds of racial purity--a `purity' that she everywhere dismantles with delightfully relentless glee.'--Lara Glenum Min K. Kang's THE DIARY OF A K-DRAMA VILLAIN proliferates and flogs the contemporary condition of dysmorphia. A reckoning of the shame applied to the Other, Kang is a feminist powerhouse who eschews didacticism for brazen elegance.--Lily Hoang