Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Use of Diacritics
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam

Part 1. Reconciliatory Projects
1. Return to Vietnam: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Salvation
2. Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photojournalism and Divergent Visual Histories
Part 2. Memorial Landscapes
3. Commodified Memories and Embodied Experiences of War
4. Monumentalizing War: Toward a New Aesthetics of Memory
Part 3. Incommensurable Pasts
5. Contested Truths: Museums and Regimes of Representation and
Objectivity
6. Tortured Bodies and the Neoliberal Politics of Historical Unaccountability

Conclusion: Empires of Memory and Knowledge Production

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Promotional Information

The politics of visual representation and transnational interaction

About the Author

Christina Schwenkel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews

"A significant achievement, and one that does much to demonstrate the complexity of sites of war memory... [Offers insights] that have an eerie resonance for today's political debates over the purpose and legitimacy of U.S. Actions in the Middle East." Geoffrey White, University of Hawai'i "This book provides a great healing and revealing experience for any survivor or student of the Vietnam era." --On Point, Winter 2011 "The American War in Contemporary Vietnam is essential reading for anyone teaching or wanting to understand Vietnam today and would be useful in teaching seminars or upper-level courses on Vietnam, Asia, memory, and history, as well as discussions of ethnographic methodology." - American Ethnologist