War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work

Name: War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work
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ISBN: 9780816670970

ISBN-10: 0816670978

ISBN-13: 9780816670970

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

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In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of the Khmer Rouge’s deadly reign over Cambodia, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished as a result of forced labor, execution, starvation, and disease. Despite the passage of more than thirty years, two regime shifts, and a contested U.N. intervention, only one former Khmer Rouge official has been successfully tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity in an international court of law to date. It is against this background of war, genocide, and denied justice that Cathy J. Schlund-Vials explores the work of 1.5-generation Cambodian American artists and writers.Drawing on what James Young labels “memory work”—the collected…

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 11/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction: Battling the "Cambodian Syndrome"



Atrocity Tourism: Politicized Remembrance and Reparative Memorialization



Screening Apology: Cinematic Culpability in The Killing Fields and New Year Baby



Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Life Writing



Lost Chapters and Invisible Wars: Hip-Hop and Cambodian American Critique


Epilogue: Remembering the Forgetting


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index