NOTES
1. Maurice Halbwachs, Les Cadres sociaux de la me´moire (Paris: Mouton, 1976).
2. John Gillis, ed., Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton, University Press, 1994).
3. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (New York: Knopf, 1981), 24
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4. I am grateful to Jeffrey Wasserstrom for reminding me of this parallel with the Vietnamese situation.
5. Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 23
6. Du Tu Le, “The Dawn of a New Humankind,” in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems from the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries, ed. and trans. Huynh Sanh Thong (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996).
7. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978), 9.