Norton Lecture 5: On Being Minor | Viet Thanh Nguyen

The 2023-24 Norton Lectures with Viet Thanh Nguyen | To Save and to Destroy: On Writing as an Other
Norton Lecture Five: On Being Minor | March 20, 2024
What does it mean to be a “minor” writer? From a minority, from a small nation, from the conquered, from the displaced, from spaces that are inevitably politicized or forgotten or overlooked? Art and politics explicitly overlap for the writer who is forced to be minor or who chooses to be minor, and whose aesthetic strategies and archives can and must be eclectic.