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The Harvard Advocate | An Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publish Date
May 31, 2024
Interviewees
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Interviewers
Carrie Hsu
,
Vicki Xu
Publisher
The Harvard Advocate
Topics
Becoming a pundit
Form breakage in writing
Genre choices in writing
History, colonialism, and identity in literature
Influential works and writers
The practice of nonfiction writing
People Mentioned
Cathy Park Hong
Edward Said
Frantz Fanon
Gramsci
Layli Long Soldier
Maxine Hong Kingston
Ocean Vuong
Ralph Ellison
Solmaz Sharif
Theresa Cha
Toni Morrison
W. G. Sebald
Works Mentioned
A Man of Two Faces
Black Skin, White Masks
Dictee
Minor Feelings
Orientalism
The Sympathizer
Places Mentioned
The New York Times
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