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To save and to destroy : writing as an other / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780674298170
  • ISBN: 0674298179
  • Physical Description: 126 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Authorship > Philosophy.
Vietnamese Americans > California > San Jose > Biography.
Immigrants > California > San Jose > Biography.
Refugees > Vietnam > Buôn Mê Thuột > Biography.
Genre: Literary criticism.
Autobiographies.
Lectures.

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  • 7 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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