9. ON POWERFUL MEMORY
1. Kipling, Kipling, 97–98.
2. Trinh, Woman Native Other, 10–11.
3. In her valuable work on War, Genocide, and Justice, Schlund-Vials argues that S-21 encourages visitors to see its history through the eyes of the prison’s administration and guards (43). If so, this is one possible reason why the Khmer may not be interested in visiting.
4. Um, “Exiled Memory,” 832.
5. Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, 457.
6. Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, xiv.
7. Ibid., 365.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., xv.
10. Ibid., 365.
11. Storr, Dislocations, 28.
12. Ibid., xv.
13. Scarry, The Body in Pain, 131.
14. Utley, “12 Reasons Why America Doesn’t Win Its Wars.”
15. Some of the sources that inform this discussion on sympathy, empathy, and compassion are Berlant, “Introduction”; Edelman, No Future, 67–100; Garber, “Compassion”; Keen, Empathy and the Novel; Song, Strange Future, 87–90; and Yui, “Perception Gaps between Asia and the United States of America,” 71.
16. Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 101.
17. Hirsch, “From ‘The Generation of Postmemory,’ ” 347. See also Hirsch, Family Frames.
18. Ollman, “Dinh Q. Le at Shoshana Wayne.”
19. Cotter, “Two Sides’ Viewpoints on the War in Vietnam.”
20. Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 70.
21. The analysis of Lê is adapted from my essay “Impossible to Forget, Difficult to Remember: Vietnam and the Art of Dinh Q. Lê.”
22. Morrison, Beloved, 44.
23. The commentary on cosmopolitanism is extensive. For a few sources, see Appiah, Cosmopolitanism; Archibugi, “Cosmopolitical Democracy”; Brennan, At Home in the World and “Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism”; Cheah and Robbins, Cosmopolitics; Clifford, Routes; Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness; Douzinas, Human Rights and Empire; Gilroy, Against Race and Postcolonial Melancholia; Hollinger, “Not Universalists, Not Pluralists”; Kant, To Perpetual Peace; Kaplan, Questions of Travel; Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism”; Srikanth, The World Next Door; and Vertovec and Cohen, Conceiving Cosmopolitanism.
24. Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, 85.
25. Ibid., 144.
26. Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia, 59–60.
27. Scarry, “The Difficulty of Imagining Other People,” 105.
28. Ibid., 103.
29. Kingsolver, “A Pure, High Note of Anguish.”
30. King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 151.
31. For accounts of the book’s impact and popularity, see the essays by Fox, “Fire, Spirit, Love, Story”; Vo, “Memories That Bind”; and Vuong, “The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram and the Postwar Vietnamese Mentality.”
32. Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, 27 and 111.
33. Ibid, 114. The quotations are drawn from the English edition of the diary, although I have cross-checked these translations with the original Vietnamese edition.
34. Ibid., 158.
35. Ibid., 83 and 47, respectively.
36. Ibid., 96.
37. Ibid., 83.
38. Ibid., 86.
39. Ibid., 104.
40. Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” 6.
41. Kingston, Fifth Book of Peace, 227.
42. The arguments about compassion, cosmopolitanism, and peace in this chapter have been adapted from my article “Remembering War, Dreaming Peace.”
43. Kingston, Fifth Book of Peace, 61.
JUST FORGETTING
1. Thiep, “Don’t Cry in California,” 602, italics in original, my translation from his story “Khong Khoc O California.”
2. Ibid., 599 and 600, italics in original.
3. Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves, Kindle edition, loc. 1837.
4. Vang, “Heirs of the ‘Secret War’ in Laos.”
5. For insightful accounts of the genre of the Hmong story cloth, see Conquergood, “Fabricating Culture,” and Chiu, “ ‘I Salute the Spirit of My Communities.’ ”
6. The Chas’ story cloth can be found in Cha, Dia’s Story Cloth.
7. This paragraph is adapted from my article on “Refugee Memories and Asian American Critique.”
8. Walcott, “The Schooner Flight,” Collected Poems, 330.
9. UN News Centre, “UN Warns of ‘Record High’ 60 Million Displaced amid Expanding Global Conflicts.”
10. Walcott, “The Schooner Flight,” Collected Poems, 334.
11. Davies, “Vietnam 40 Years On.”
12. Among many such articles, Pincus’ “In Iraq, Lessons of Vietnam Still Resonate” was published as I wrote the last few chapters of this book.
13. O’Reilly, “Q&A: Doris Lessing Talks to Sarah O’Reilly about The Golden Notebook,” loc. 11316.
14. Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, 31–32.
15. Ibid., 27.
16. Ibid., 31.
17. Ibid., 33–34.
18. Ibid., 39.
19. Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Kindle edition, loc. 741.
20. Griswold, Forgiveness, 29.
21. Ibid., 30.
22. Margalit, The Ethics of Memory, 193.
23. “Forgive,” Oxford English Dictionary.
24. Connerton in How Modernity Forgets discusses how forgetting is an integral part of capitalism and modernity, which the gift is supposed to counteract through compelling memory (53).
25. Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, 481.
26. Ehrhart, “The Invasion of Grenada.”
27. Hyde, The Gift, 258.
28. Short’s Pol Pot was a helpful source in studying the life of the Khmer Rouge leader.
29. Dunlop, The Lost Executioner, 22.
EPILOGUE
1. Marker, Sans Soleil.
2. Ibid.
3. Spiegelman, Metamaus, 60.
4. Parts of this epilogue are adapted from my article “War, Memory and the Future.”
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