Four decades on: Vietnam, the United States, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War

Introduction: national amnesia, transnational memory, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War / Scott Laderman and Edwin A Martini

Legacies foretold : excavating the roots of postwar Viet nam / Ngo Vinh Long

Viet nam and "Vietnam" in American history and memory / Walter L. Hixson

"The mainspring in this country has been broken": America's battered sense of self and the emergence of the Vietnam Syndrome / Alexander Bloom

Cold war in a Vietnamese community / Heonik Kwon

The ambivalence of reconciliation in contemporary Vietnamese memoryscapes / Christina Schwenkel

Remembering war, dreaming peace : on cosmopolitanism, compassion, and literature / Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Nam's growing pains : postsocialist cinema development and transnational politics / Mariam B. Lam

A fishy affair : Vietnamese seafood and the confrontation with U.S. neoliberalism / Scott Laderman

Agent Orange: coming to terms with a transnational legacy / Diane Niblack Fox

Refuge to refuse : seeking balance in the Vietnamese environmental imagination / Charles Waugh

Missing in action in the twenty-first century / H. Bruce Franklin.