Norton Lecture 3: On the Death of Asian Americans | Viet Thanh Nguyen

The 2023-24 Norton Lectures with Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other Norton Lecture Three: On the Death of Asian Americans | December 5, 2023 Asian Americans exist at the juncture of exclusion and inclusion. Asian American culture and politics is more unified in the face of exclusion and less unified in the face of inclusion. This lecture looks at this dynamic as it is dealt with in literature, which has also been one of the most successful ways for Asian Americans to achieve inclusion through narrative plenitude.