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Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Two Writers Reflect on War and Peace
Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Two Writers Reflect on War and Peace
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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
May 24, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Visionary writer Maxine Hong Kingston has been writing about war and peace since her landmark 1976 book The Woman Warrior. Her lifelong efforts on this theme often touched on the Vietnam War, from China Men to The Fifth Book of Peace. These works influenced award-winning novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen as he dealt with the war in both fiction (The Sympathizer) and scholarship (Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War). Both writers will share the ALOUD stage to discuss their own personal histories with the war, and the responsibility of literature in depicting war machines and peace movements.Click here for photos from the program.
Released:
May 24, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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