Minor Feelings

What is a summary of the essay, Bad English, from the collection, Minor Feelings?

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In the essay, Bad English, Hong describes her fraught relationship with the English language. As a child, Hong was embarrassed by her family's poor use of the language. She wanted to escape the obvious nature of Korean American identity. While in college at Oberlin, Hong studied poetry under Myung Mi Kim. Kim's assigned readings and lectures helped Hong see the ways in which language and writing could be political. By employing the broken English of her youth, Hong might be able to enact her particular feelings of oppression and exclusion.

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