The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation

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Abu Ghraib abuses in context of images of abuses in Vietnam, 20, 179–80, 189, 223nn2–3 Adorno, Theodor W., 89 Agamben, Giorgio, 188 Agent Orange, and human rights, 184, 224n11 Air Defense-Air Force Museum, 153, 154, 156–157, 158, 161, 188, 190, 192 Alneng, Victor, 84 Alter, Nora M., 52, 212n10 Amazing Race (television show), 176–77, 193 American War: museums, and narratives about, 152–54, 221n5; use of term, 2, 5, 6, 9, 80, 82 An Lộc, 71–72 Anagnost, Ann, 196 Anderson, Benedict, 107, 149 Anh Quang, 124 “Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side” (Page), 172 antimemory versus commodified memories , and youth, 19, 97, 217n18 antiwar movement, and role of photojournalism , 55, 212n16 Antze, Paul, 99 AP (Associated Press), 45, 55, 213n20 Appadurai, Arjun, 87, 171 architectural styles of socialism, and monumentalizing war, 114, 122, 219nn10–11 Area 5 Army Museum, inÐà Nềng, 161, 163, 164 Army Museum, 118. See also Military History (Army) Museum ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam ): historical memories of, 69, 71, 72, 98–100, 102, 204, 214n29, 217n19; photographers, 172; public spaces of commemoration for, 108; reconciliation projects and, 46; veterans’ empathy and unity with, 46 Asad, Talal, 178, 182, 189, 194, 196 Asian values, and human rights, 185, 194, 224n14 Asselin, Pierre, 184, 225n20 Associated Press, 45, 55, 213n20 Ba DÐình square, 123, 220n16 Bà Kiệu temple, 111, 112, 163 Balaban, John, 34 Bảo Ninh, 63 Barrelon, Pierre, 111 Barthes, Roland, 171 Baudrillard, Jean, 89 Bến Ðình area of Củ Chi Tunnels, 90, 91–93, 93, 97 Bến Du ̛ợc martyr temple, 95, 96, 135, 136 I N D E X Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. 250 INDEX Bến Du ̛ợc area of Củ Chi Tunnels, 91–92, 95–97, 96 Benjamin, Walter, 6, 13, 217n10 Bennett, Tony, 147, 148, 221n1 Berdahl, Daphne, 146 Biehl, Joao, 189 Biên Hòa RVN military cemetery, 100, 217n20, 218n3 bilateral trade agreement, 3, 195–97, 225– 26n24 Biles, Annabel, 83 Bodnar, John, 11, 97 Boi Tran Huynh, 219n11 Borneman, John, 39, 43, 209n15 Bornstein, Erica, 36, 41 Bourdieu, Pierre, 91, 148 Boym, Svetlana, 10 Bradley, Mark Philip, 178 Bruner, Edward M., 216n15 Bruszt, László, 196, 207–208n6 BTA (bilateral trade agreement), 3, 195– 97, 225–26n24 Bùi DÐình Túy, 67, 68 Burawoy, Michael, 196 Burdahl, Daphne, 146 Burghardt, Raymond, 179 Butler, Judith, 180, 188–89 Cambodia, remembering conflicts with, 70–71, 84–85, 161, 164, 216n9, 222n10 capitalist consumption, 19, 80, 100, 137, 221n21 Caruth, Cathy, 31, 32 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 140, 189, 203, 205 Chanoff, David, 214n27 “Chicken Village” outside Ðà Lạt, 102, 103 “Children’s Paintings on the Topic of War and Peace” exhibit, 159, 160 China, remembering conflicts with, 70– 71, 161–62, 164, 222n10, 223n1 Chong, Denise, 56 Clark, Laurie Beth, 81 Clifford, James, 16, 17, 91, 147, 151 Clinton, Bill, 1–5, 13 Cohen, David William, 7 Cohn, Bernard S., 148, 149 collaborative transnational memorial projects, 38–47, 209nn11–16 “Collections of Economic Objects in the Period of 1976–1999” exhibit, 158 Comaroff, Jean, 196 Comaroff, John L., 196 commemorative processes, and reconciliation , 9–10, 38–47, 209nn11–16 comment book excepts, and museums, 146, 165–66, 167, 168 commodified memories: authenticity and, 85, 92, 94, 216n15; Cambodia and, 84–85, 216n9; capitalist consumption and, 19, 80, 100; Củ Chi Tunnels, 19, 27, 88–97, 90, 97, 99, 225n17; effects of, 19; embodied experiences of war and, 84–86, 88–97, 91–94, 216nn9–10; exoticization of sites and, 94–95, 217n17; international tourists’ perception of war and, 19, 83–84; liberation celebration and, 79–80; physical differences codification and, 90–91; recombinant history and, 82, 94; reconfigured public space by Vietnamese tourists and, 19, 94–97, 96, 216–17n16, 217n18; reconstituting memory, and effects of, 100–101; RVN tour guides and, 97–100, 217n19; souvenir of death objects and, 87, 216n12; tragic tourism , use of term, 81; transnational process and, 5–9, 12, 19, 80–82, 94, 101, 215n1; U.S. perception of war and, 81, 82–85, 215n5, 216n7; veterans and, 83, 84, 86–88, 88, 216n12, 217n17; Vietnamese perception of war and, 19, 81, 82–86, 216n6; youth, and antimemory versus, 19, 97, 217n18; Zippo lighters, 87–88, 88, 216n13 INDEX 251 communism: global capitalism versus privations due to, 28, 35–36, 38, 166; human rights...