| International Standard Book Number |
9780674299764 (epub)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674299771 (pdf)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674298170 (cloth) : $26.95
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| International Standard Book Number |
0674298179 : $26.95
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23
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| Personal Name |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- author. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001046514
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| Title Statement |
To save and to destroy : writing as an other / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
126 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/mediaTypes/n
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/carriers/nc
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| Series Statement |
The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 2023-2024
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-117) and index.
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| 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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| Summary, Etc. |
"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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| Subject-Personal Name |
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001046514
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Immigrants Biography. California San Jose
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugees Biography. Vietnam Buôn Mê Thuot
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vietnamese Americans Biography. California San Jose
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Other (Philosophy) in literature. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005002333
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Minorities in literature. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085827
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authorship Philosophy. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009116377
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander. bisacsh
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & Ethnicity. bisacsh
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies. bisacsh
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026047 lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Lectures. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026122 lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Literary criticism. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2017026126 lcgft
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025 To save and to destroy (DLC) 2024035449 9780674299764
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| Series Added Entry-Uniform Title |
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 2023-2024. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42005999
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