Keywords: Writing Haunting Ethics of Memory IdentityĪuthors: Longyan Zhang, Fulbright visiting student researcher in University of Southern California, PhD student in Renmin University of China. At the end of the interview, he also shares his progress on his new book and his son’s first literary work. Nguyen also offers suggestions for Chinese scholars for their research on Vietnamese American literature. He claims that his hybrid identity is closely linked with his ethnic background, the refugee experience, and social relationship. He also discussed the issues concerning his current identity. In this interview, by addressing the issues of war, the refugee experience and memory in his writing, Viet Thanh Nguyen holds that ethics of memory is a just way to confront the traumatic past, preventing it from haunting the memory. Nguyen on a wide range of issues concerning his writing, memory and identity. Zhang Longyan, when working as a Fulbright visiting scholar in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department at University of Southern California during the academic year 2019-2020, interviewed Prof. His published books also include Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (2002), Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016), The Refugees (2017) and The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (2018). He is 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for his debut novel, The Sympathizer (2015). He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. (Renmin University of China, University of Southern California)Ībstract: Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American writer. Although we do not normally publish scholarly articles, Consequence Forum feels it is a great honor to publish this interview between 张龙艳 Longyan Zhang and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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