The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism.

Duy Lap Nguyen is Assistant Professor at the University of Houston

Introduction: Image-making and Imperialism: Sovereign, Surveillance and Spectacle in the Vietnam War
1. Colonialism and National Culture
2. The Other Vietnamese Revolution: Personalism and US Imperialism in South Vietnam
3. Psychological Warfare and the Society of Consumption in the South
5. Surveillance and Spectacle in Bùi Anh Tu?n's Z.28 Novels
6. Sovereignty, Surveillance and Spectacle in the Saigon Fabulous Four
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Index