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| Title Statement | To save and to destroy: writing as an other / Viet Thanh Nguyen. |
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| Series | Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 2023-2024 |
| Author | Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,2025. |
| Extent of Item | 126 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780674298170 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07906066 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Authorship--Philosophy |
| Immigrants--Biography--California--San Jose | |
| Minorities in literature | |
| Other (Philosophy) in literature | |
| Refugees--Biography--Vietnam--Buôn Mê Thuột | |
| Vietnamese Americans--Biography--California--San Jose | |
| By Name | Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971- |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Lectures | |
| Literary criticism | |
| Personal narratives | |
