Historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: National Amnesia, Transnational Memory, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War / Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini 1
1. Legacies Foretold: Excavating the Roots of Postwar Viet Nam / Ngo Vinh Long 16
2. Viet Nam and "Vietnam" in American History and Memory / Walter L. Hixson 44
3. "The Mainspring in This Country Has Been Broken": America's Battered Sense of Self and the Emergence of the Vietnam Syndrome / Alexander Bloom 58
4. Cold War in a Vietnamese Community / Heonik Kwon 84
5. The Ambivalence of Reconciliation in Contemporary Vietnamese Memoryscapes / Christina Schwenkel 103
6. Remembering War, Dreaming Peace: On Cosmopolitanism, Compassion, and Literature / Viet Thanh Nguyen 132
7. Viêt Nam's Growing Pains: Postsocialist Cinema Development and Transnational Politics / Mariam B. Lam 155
8. A Fishy Affair: Vietnamese Seafood and the Confrontation with U.S. Neoliberalism / Scott Laderman 183
9. Agent Orange: Coming to Terms with a Transnational Legacy / Diane Niblack Fox 207
10. Refuge to Refuse: Seeking Balance in the Vietnamese Environmental Imagination / Charles Waugh 242
11. Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century / H. Bruce Franklin 259
Bibliography 297
About the Contributors 313
Index 315

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