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  title info:
    title: To save and to destroy
    sub title: writing as an other
  name:
    name part: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 126 pages ; 22 cm.
  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.
  table of 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.
  target audience: adult
  note: Viet Thanh Nguyen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
      name part: 1971-
  subject:
    topic: Other (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Minorities in literature
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Vietnamese Americans
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Jose
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Jose
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: Vietnam
    geographic: Buôn Mê Thuột
    genre: Biography
  classification: PN56.O69 N48 2025
  classification: 813/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2023-2024
  identifier: 9780674298170
  identifier: 0674298179
  identifier: 9780674299764
  identifier: 9780674299771
  identifier: 2024035448
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240805
    record change date: 20260427143408.1
    record identifier: in00005645031