Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Transnational Recastings of Conquest and the Malinche Myth 11
5. Performing Cultural Memory: Scenarios of Colonial Encounter in the Writings of John Smith, Cabeza de Vaca, and Jacques Cartier 33
6. Saving the Circum-Atlantic World: Transnational (American) Memories in Julia Álvarez’s Disease Narrative 59
7. Intruders on Native Ground: Troubling Silences and Memories of the Land-Taking in Norwegian Immigrant Letters 79
8. Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History and Identity in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk 105
9. Arabs Looking Back: William Peter Blatty’s Autobiographical Writing 129
10. Roots Trips and Virtual Ethnicity: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated 145
11. Terrorist Violence and Transnational Memory: Jonathan Safran Foer and Don DeLillo 171
12. Remembering War the Transnational Way: The U.S.-American Memory of World War I 185
13. “Let Him Remain Until the Judgment in France”: Family Letters and the Overseas Burying of U.S. World War I Soldiers 215
14. Liberating Dachau: Transnational Discourses of Holocaust Memory 243
15. Remembering the ‘Forgotten War’ and Containing the ‘Remembered War:’ Insistent Nationalism and the Transnational Memory of the Korean War 267
16. Celluloid Recoveries: Cinematic Transformations of Ground Zero 285
17. (Re)Visions of Progress: Chicago’s World’s Fairs as Sites of Transnational American Memory 311
18. Between Diaspora and Empire: The Shevchenko Monument in Washington, D.C. 333
19. Of Routes and Roots: Topographies of Transnational Memory in the Upper Rio Grande Valley 351
20. “A Lens into What It Means to Be an American”: African American Philadelphia Murals as Sites of Memory 377
21. Artistic Inspiration and Transnational Memories in the Twentieth Century 405
22. Magna Carta 1215 and the Exercise of Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century 425
23. Commentary Epilogue 447
24. Backmatter 453