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Norton Lecture Two: On Speaking as an Other | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture Two: On Speaking as an Other | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture Six: On the Joy of Otherness | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture Six: On the Joy of Otherness | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture One: On the Double, or Inauthenticity | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture One: On the Double, or Inauthenticity | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

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Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans | Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 6: On the Joy of Otherness

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Photo Credit: BeBe Jacobs THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Gina Apostol, Novelist Norton Lecture Six: On the Joy of Otherness To write as an other is to remember the conditions and origins of one’s otherness, which are usually...

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 2: On Speaking as an Other

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THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Laila Lalami Norton Lecture Two: On Speaking as an Other Timed to coincide with the release of Nguyen’s book, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, this lecture highlights some of...

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 3: On the Death of Asian Americans

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THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Jeff Chang, Writer & Critic Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans Asian Americans exist at the juncture of exclusion and inclusion. Asian American culture and politics is more...

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 4: On Crossing Borders

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THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Ken Chen, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Barnard College Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders Colonization violated borders and redrew them, generating political, economic, and...

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 5: On Being Minor

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Photo Credit: BeBe Jacobs THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Mai Der Vang, Assistant Professor of English at Fresno State University Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor What does it mean to be a “minor” writer? From a minority...

Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other | Norton Lecture 1: On the Double, or Inauthenticity

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Photo Credit: BeBe Jacobs THE NORTON LECTURES Speaker: Viet Thanh Nguyen Interlocutor: Min Song Norton Lecture One: On the Double, Or Inauthenticity This opening lecture addresses what it means to write as an other, especially given writing’s power both...