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Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotes

born 1971 United States

Viet Thanh Nguyen (born March 13, 1971) is a Vietnamese-American novelist and professor.

United States
Academics
Non-fiction authors
Novelists
Short story writers

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It's taken me a long time to understand how deeply traumatic that was, that that experience remains an invisible brand stamped between my shoulder blades. And in many ways, I've been - I spent a lifetime trying to make sense of what that trauma has meant to me.

I follow in this tradition because I believe literature matters, and in this book I insist that Asian American literature literally embodies the contradictions, conﬂicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture

Race & Resistance Literature & Politics In Asian America (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Viet Thanh Nguyen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.