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DESCRIPTION:Refugees\, Language\, and the Meaning of 'America': with Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Committed.\n\nThursday\, April 7\, 2022\, 7 p.m.\nKathryn Mohrman Theatre\n\nViet Thanh Nguyen is a professor at the University of Southern California and an award-winning novelist\, creative nonfiction writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and essayist whose columns are regularly published in The New York Times. Nguyen and his family came to the United States in 1975 as refugees during the Vietnam War. Growing up in America\, he realized that most movies and books about the war focused on Americans\, while the Vietnamese were silenced and erased. He was inspired by this lack of representation to write about the war from a Vietnamese perspective. In his first novel\, “The Sympathizer” (2017)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize\, Nguyen creatively reimagines the Vietnam War. His second novel\, “The Committed” (2021)\, is a much anticipated follow-up to the first\, has received widespread acclaim\, and has been described as a “masterwork” and “revelatory.” Nguyen’s book “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War” (2016) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nguyen received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2017.\n\nThis event is part of an ongoing speaker series! Forever Foreign: Asian America\, Global Asia\, and the Problem of Anti-Asian Racism. A year-long series to center the perspectives and voices of the Asian diaspora communities and deepen the ongoing conversations on antiracism.\n\nA violent incident of anti-Asian racism earlier this year inspired the launch of this series of lectures\, discussions\, film screenings\, and reading groups at Colorado College: “Forever Foreign: Asian America\, Global Asia\, and the Problem of Anti-Asian Racism.”\n\nFollowing the mass killing of Asian-Americans in Atlanta on March 16\, an act of violent anti-Asian racism that shook the nation\, a group of CC faculty felt it would be helpful to host a series of events that highlight the histories\, narratives\, and voices from Asian societies and of Asian diaspora communities in the United States to increase knowledge and awareness of these communities.\n\nThe “Forever Foreign” series is sponsored by the Asian Studies Program\; Cultural Attractions Fund\; National Endowment for the Humanities\; MacLean Fund for the English Department\; Department of History\; Department of Political Science\; Butler Center\; Department of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Migration Studies\; Center for Global Education and Field Study\; and Feminist and Gender Studies.\n\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/4010
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SUMMARY:Refugees\, Language\, and the Meaning of 'America': with Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Committed.
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