'Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art' brings together essays on literature, film and media, representational art, and music of the Vietnam War that were generated by a three-day conference in Honolulu during Veterans Week 2005. This large and extensive volume, the first collection of Vietnam War criticism published since the 1990s, reflects significant cultural and historical changes since then, including U.S.-Vietnamese cultural transactions in the wake of political reconciliation and the Vietnamese diaspora; popular commodification and memorialization of the war in America; and, renascent American imperialism. Contributors include well-established and well-published writers and critics like Philip Beidler, Cathey Calloway, Lorrie Goldensohn, Wayne Karlin, Andrew Lam, Jerry Lembcke, Tim O'Brien, John S. Schafer, and Alex Vernon as well as emerging Vietnam scholars and critics. Among other contributions, the volume provides important quasi-bibliographical essays on canonical American and Vietnamese literature and film, African American Vietnam war narratives, Chicano fiction and poetry, and American Vietnam war art music as well as essays on such subjects as real and digital war memorials, Vietnamese popular war songs, and Vietnamization of the Gulf War. Teachers, scholars, and the general public will find 'Thirty Years After' a valuable guide to ongoing critical discussion of the most important event in American history between 1945 and 9/11.

Contents:
1. Keynote Address: Thirty Years After -- Tim O'Brien
2. Thirty Years After: The Archaeologies -- Philip Biedler
3. Quiet Colonialism: Graham Greene's The Quiet American -- Rebecca Kumar
4. The Vietnam War Film, Victimized Veterans, and the Disappearing Woman -- Gina Weaver
5. The Labyrinth of Myth and Gender in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato -- Susan Farrell
6. Speaking of Trauma: Untold and Retold Tales in The Things They Carried -- Mark Heberle
7. Addressing an Unjust Past: Narrating History in In The Lake of the Woods and the Supreme Court -- Warren Rawson
8. America, Viet Nam, and the Poetics of Guilt -- Matthew Hill
9. Yusef Komunyakaa, The U.S. Military, The Interracial DMZ -- Nancy Esposito
10. Refusal to be Can(n)on Fodder: African American Representation of the Vietnam War and Canon Formation -- Shirley Hanshaw
11. In Their Own Voices: The Chicano Experience in Vietnam War Literature -- Catherine Calloway
12. Reconciliation through Literature: Mirrors and Windows -- Wayne Karlin
13. Vietnamese Diaspora and California -- Andrew Lam
14. The Vietnamese Land Reform Program as Literary Theme -- John C. Schafer
15. Beyond the American Canon: Paradise of the Blind, the Politics of Family, and the Economics of Affect -- Steven P. Liparulo
16. Tran Van Dinh's No Passenger on the River: A Lost Foundation Text -- Michele Janette
17. "Unbreakable Faith": Vietnamese Poetry About the U.S.-Vietnam War -- Andrew Wilson
18. The Literature of Trauma: Reading the Sorrow of Love in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War -- Ryan Skinnell
19. Memorializing the Anti-American Resistance: The "Vietnam War" in Vietnamese Film -- Pierre Asselin
20. An Unforgotten Song: Representations of the American War in Vietnamese Song after 1975 -- Jason Gibbs
21. Most Beautiful Words: Linh Dinh's Poetics of Disgust -- Susan Schultz
22. Apocalypse Now and Charm School: Film and Literature in the Making of CNN's Tailwind Tale of Nerve Gas and Defectors -- Jerry Lambcke
23. Virtual Nam: Intertextuality and Authenticity in Vietnam War Video Games -- Bruce Esplin
24. Vietnam Veterans Memorials as Image Events: Exorcising the Specter of Vietnam -- Neil P. Baird
25. Aesthetic Limbo: Memory Making at the Vietnam Women's Memorial -- Susan L. Eastman
26. A Season in Hell: Art Song and the American War in Vietnam -- Thomas Kinsella
27. "Down in Vietnam our Comrades": Vietnam in Italian Folk and Popular Song -- Alessandro Portelli
28. Why Italians Don't Read Tim O'Brien: The Case of Vietnam War Literature in Translation -- Stefano Rosso
29.Tarzan, Vietnam, and the Ambiguity of American Empire -- Alex Vernon
30. Feral Soldiers: Casualties of War and In the Valley of Elah -- Lorrie Goldstein
31. Vietnam and Imaginary Geography in Anthony Swafford's Jarhead -- Michael Zeitlin
32."I'm not trying to compete with you": Gulf War Fiction and Discursive Space -- Elisabeth H. Piedmont-Marton
33. The Lesson Unlearned: Moral Trauma in Andrew Jolly's A Time of Soldiers -- Janis Haswell
34. Loyalties Real and Unreal in Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach -- Christopher Schreiner