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To save and to destroy : writing as an other / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
"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.
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- ISBN: 9780674298170
- ISBN: 0674298179
- Physical Description: 126 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2025
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- 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.
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