Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen

personal mourning of, 194–98; photographers as, 183–84; as result of Korean soldiers, 145, 146, 147, 150–51, 155; shock of recognition and, 112; unearthing, 45; Vietnamese refugees’ memories of, 45; women and children as, 30. See also Veterans, of war
Catfish and Mandala (Pham), 206, 208
Caves, 186–89
Cemeteries, 23–27, 35–39, 44, 45
Chang, Juliana, 235
Chan, Jeffery Paul, 124
Cheah, Pheng, 90–92
China: in Korean War, 6
China Gate (film), 125
China Men (Kingston), 225
Chin, Frank, 124
Choeung Ek, 254, 255, 256, 258
Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey, 65
Chow, Rey, 74
Chum Mey, 255
Chun Doo Hwan, 139, 143
Cimino, Michael, 109–10
Cinematography, 122
The Circle of Hanh (Weigl), 295
Class inequality: just memories and, 17
Close Quarters (Heinemann), 64, 235
Collective memories: definition of, 10
Collective memory: definition of, 10
Colonialism, 84, 93, 197
Commemoration (Cuong), 175
Communist Party, 26–30, 41, 158, 205–6
Con Son, 172
Coppola, Francis Ford, 116–18, 119, 137
Cosmopolitanism, 266, 270–72, 275–76
Cotter, Hollan, 269
Cuba, 7
Cu Chi, 181
Cumings, Bruce, 143
Dachau concentration camp, 258
Dang Duc Sinh, 175
Dang Nhat Minh, 167–69, 183
Dang Thuy Tram, 168–69, 212, 274–75
de Antonio, Emile, 119, 137
Debord, Guy, 14
The Deer Hunter (film), 109–10
Demilitarized Zone, 133
de Palma, Brian, 77
Derrida, Jacques, 287–88, 290, 291
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram ( Nhat Ky Dang Thuy Tram; Tram), 274–75
Díaz, Junot, 219–20
Didion, Joan, 27
Dien Bien Phu, 169–70
Dinh, Linh, 43, 215, 216, 218
Disremembering, 63–68
Documentation Center of Cambodia, 259
Dominican Republic, 6, 219–20
Dong Ha, 24, 45
Don’t Burn (film), 168
“Don’t Cry in California”; (“Khong Khoc O California”; Thiep), 280
Downey, Robert Jr., 123
DuBois, W. E. B., 53
Duch, 84–86, 89, 93, 98–100, 256
Dunlop, Nic, 299
Duong, Lan, 211
Duong Thu Huong, 61–62, 80
Eastwood, Clint, 123, 124
The Eaves of Heaven (Pham), 212
Education, 206–8, 276
Ehrhart, W. D., 295
Eichmann, Adolf, 95–96
The Elimination (Panh), 84–85, 88, 100
Ellison, Ralph, 63
“The Emergence of Vietnamese American Literature” (Truong), 209
Enemies: as flat characters, 28–29; lack of affinity for, 28
Engels, Friedrich, 107
English language: of ethnic literature, 198–99; in industrial memories, 15
The English Patient (Ondaatje), 276–77
Enlightened forgetting: definition of, 18
Entertainment Weekly (magazine), 237, 241–42
Espiritu, Yen Le, 124, 195–96, 206
Ethical vision, 121
Ethics of remembering: of American Vietnamese, 40–44; artistic works and, 160; characterizations of people in, 28–33; description of, 9–19; heroic vs. antiheroic mode in, 43–44; humanity vs. inhumanity and, 96–100; injustice of forgetting and, 68; of minority people, 43; natural affinity and, 27–29, 59–60; otherness and, 68–69; thick relations in, 54–56, 59
Ethnicity, 199, 201
Ethnocentrism: influence of, in memory industry, 13
Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, 289
Faas, Horst, 183
Family bonds, 55
Farocki, Harun, 105
The Fifth Book of Peace (Kingston), 277
Filkins, Dexter, 284
Films: about Korea’s role in Vietnam, 143–49; of horror genre, 174; importance of, 87; of Khmer Rouge era, 86–89, 97; most vivid war images from, 105; power of American cinema in, 171; power of voice in, 214; role of, in war machine, 108–28, 144–45; as secondhand memories, 103–4; on war and memory, 168
Fine Arts Museum, 29, 160, 175–77
First person shooters, 110–11
Flat characters, 28–33
The Forever War (Filkins/Haldeman), 284
Forgiveness, 262–65, 279–80, 287–95
Forgotten War, 129
Forster, E. M., 28, 29, 277
Foucault, Michel, 91
French colonialism, 197
French troops, 169–70, 172, 173
Freud, Sigmund, 16, 55
From Vietnam to Hollywood (Lê), 233, 268
Fuller, Samuel, 125
Full Metal Jacket (film), 145, 179
Fussell, Paul, 62–63
The Gangster We Are All Looking For (thuy), 194, 208, 213
The General Retires (Thiep), 238–39
Genocide, 83–100
Ghost