Norton Lecture 4: On Crossing Borders | Viet Thanh Nguyen

The 2023-24 Norton Lectures with Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other
Norton Lecture Four: On Crossing Borders | February 20, 2024
Colonization violated borders and redrew them, generating political, economic, and cultural consequences that are still being lived and felt. Part of the literary and cultural response has been to find the right forms that can speak back to colonization; the ones that interest this lecture cross or abolish (generic) borders and invent new styles like “horrific surrealism.”