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Slips and Slides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Sarah Chihaya
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It has already become a critical commonplace to begin a discussion of viet thanh nguyen's the sympathizer (2015) by invoking its powerful opening declaration:

I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 2 , March 2018 , pp. 364 - 370
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2018

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