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Anna Tran

Columnist — Class of 2026

Number of articles: 3

First Article: February 3, 2023

Latest Article: March 3, 2023

On Race at Bowdoin

A call to change histories of narrative scarcity

“The reason why we have narrative scarcity is because we have economic scarcity, and people don’t have equal access to modes of storytelling,” Pulitzer-prize author Viet Thanh Nguyen once said. In a discussion with author Maxine Hong Kingston, he delved into the immense weight and pressure placed on literature told by writers from minority cultures.

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