Title:
To save and to destroy : writing as an other
Publication Date:
2025
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
©2025
Physical Description:
126 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780674298170
Abstract:
"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.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
