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To save and to destroy : writing as an other / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Van Pelt - Featured Books--First Floor, see also table near Moelis Lounge PN56.O69 N48 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2023-2024.
- The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2023-2024
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-.
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh.
- Other (Philosophy) in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Authorship--Philosophy.
- Authorship.
- Vietnamese Americans--California--San Jose--Biography.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Immigrants--California--San Jose--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- Refugees--Vietnam--Buôn Mê Thuột--Biography.
- Refugees.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Autobiographies.
- lectures.
- Lectures.
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen's To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six essays, first delivered as the Norton Lectures, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and vigorous call for a solidarity of the devastated"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- On the double, or inauthenticity
- On speaking for an other
- On Palestine and Asia
- On crossing borders
- On being minor
- On the joy of otherness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-117) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- To save and to destroy
- ISBN:
- 9780674298170
- 0674298179
- OCLC:
- 1452731106
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