This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and
memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings
about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play
an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and
imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with
these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as
well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but
vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence.
Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he
introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice
and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and
spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are
fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can
illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam
and the modern world more generally.
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