Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'
"A startlingly original and integrated work that considers the ways in which American culture narrates, remembers, and thereby reenacts traumatic events in order to found and refound itself as a national culture. It is a remarkable interdisciplinary study."-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts
"Tangled Memories is first-rate: it is exhaustively researched, has an immense command of the literature, and brims with fascinating and original insights. It is a very important book."-James E. Young, author of The Texture of Memory
"This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of U.S. culture in the past two decades."-John Carlos Rowe, coeditor of The Vietnam War and American Culture
