Norton Lecture 1: On the Double, or Inauthenticity | Viet Thanh Nguyen

The 2023-24 Norton Lectures with Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other
Norton Lecture One: On the Double, Or Inauthenticity | September 19, 2023
This opening lecture addresses what it means to write as an other, especially given writing’s power both to save and to destroy the other. The lecture also lays out the methodology of the lectures, an embodied, autobiographical criticism that emerges from the tension between the humanities and the bare life of refugees.