Nilanjana S Roy: Unequal memories

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Here is one way to know who owns the right to your history, or your nation's history: do they know how your people scream? Viet Thanh Nguyen's protagonist, the sympathiser, "a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces" raises this point when he interviews The Auteur, "the hottest writer-director in town". The Auteur is making a movie about Vietnam, with the sympathiser's countrymen serving as raw material for Hollywood's strip-mining of the war. You should at least get the screams right, he suggests to The Auteur. "Screams are ...

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Nilanjana S Roy: Unequal memories