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To Save and to Destroy : Writing As an Other / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Charles Eliot Norton lectures.
- The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- 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.
- 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 and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674299764
- 0674299760
- 9780674299771
- 0674299779
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