Diary of a K-Drama Villain

By Min K Kang

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938055284
• ISBN13: 9781938055287
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Coconut Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.9" x 6.0"