Research Catalog

War, genocide, and justice Cambodian American memory work

Title: War, genocide, and justice [electronic resource] : Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.
Author: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

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Description

1 online resource (243 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

War, genocide, and justice (Online)

Alternative Title

War, genocide, and justice (Online)

Subject

Killing fields (Motion picture)
Cambodian Americans > Ethnic identity
Collective memory
Genocide > Cambodia > History > 20th century
Political atrocities > Cambodia > History > 20th century
Cambodia > History > Atrocities. > 1975-1979
Historical museums > Cambodia
Hip-hop > California > Long Beach
Political refugees > Cambodia > Biography
Political refugees > United States > Biography
Cambodian Americans > Biography

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

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