Event details
Sep
4
A Not-So-Docile Conversation with Hyeseung Song '01 and Professor Anne Cheng '85
Come meet first-time author, Hyeseung Song '01, discussing her book Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl with Professor Anne Cheng '85, English Literature and Asian American Studies.
Hyeseung Song '01 is a first-generation Korean American painter and the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Song's coming-of-age memoir is about growing up as an immigrant in Texas and earning visibility in her not-so-model family and in white society through academic achievement. The model minority myth takes her to Princeton, Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School until mental illness lands her in a psychiatric hospital and forces a reckoning of her self-worth. In the hospital, Song decides she must choose and heal herself. She leaves the hospital, leaves Harvard, disappoints her parents, moves to New York and becomes an artist, finding unconditional self-expression in art. Docile is the "Asian Girl, Interrupted": it is Song's journey to form an identity outside the model minority myth, heal from mental illness and find redemption in art. As an undergraduate at Princeton, Song took a year off, was a super user of the university's counseling center, and ultimately studied philosophy. She began what would become the first chapters of Docile in the creative writing workshops of Princeton.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Docile/Hyeseung-Song/9781668003664
Anne Anlin Cheng '85 is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies, at Princeton.
Copies of "Docile" will be available for purchase and autograph by Hyeseung at this event.
We look forward to seeing you!
Hyeseung Song '01 is a first-generation Korean American painter and the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Song's coming-of-age memoir is about growing up as an immigrant in Texas and earning visibility in her not-so-model family and in white society through academic achievement. The model minority myth takes her to Princeton, Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School until mental illness lands her in a psychiatric hospital and forces a reckoning of her self-worth. In the hospital, Song decides she must choose and heal herself. She leaves the hospital, leaves Harvard, disappoints her parents, moves to New York and becomes an artist, finding unconditional self-expression in art. Docile is the "Asian Girl, Interrupted": it is Song's journey to form an identity outside the model minority myth, heal from mental illness and find redemption in art. As an undergraduate at Princeton, Song took a year off, was a super user of the university's counseling center, and ultimately studied philosophy. She began what would become the first chapters of Docile in the creative writing workshops of Princeton.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Docile/Hyeseung-Song/9781668003664
Anne Anlin Cheng '85 is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies, at Princeton.
Copies of "Docile" will be available for purchase and autograph by Hyeseung at this event.
We look forward to seeing you!
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