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How does a nation come to terms with losing a war-especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past. Contesting Indochina is the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans' associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives constitute the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France's changing global status.

Decolonization --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- France --- Colonies --- Indochina War, 1946-1954 --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- algerian war. --- anticolonial narrative. --- colonialism. --- decolonization of indochina. --- decolonization. --- dien bien phu. --- french colonial efforts in indochina. --- french colonizers of indochina. --- french indochina. --- french repatriate camps. --- georges boudarel. --- history of french colonization. --- indochina war. --- indochina. --- legacies of colonialism in french indochina. --- military history. --- postcolonial indochina. --- state sponsored commemoration of colonization. --- world politics.