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 : Americas 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 Nams 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