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War, genocide, and justice : Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cambodian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Cambodian Americans.
- Collective memory.
- Genocide--Cambodia--History--20th century.
- Genocide.
- Political atrocities--Cambodia--History--20th century.
- Political atrocities.
- Historical museums--Cambodia.
- Historical museums.
- Hip-hop--California--Long Beach.
- Hip-hop.
- Political refugees--Cambodia--Biography.
- Political refugees.
- Political refugees--United States--Biography.
- Cambodian Americans--Biography.
- Cambodia--History--1975-1979--Atrocities.
- Cambodia.
- Killing fields (Motion picture).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Ca
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4692-2
- 0-8166-8293-3
- OCLC:
- 846494731
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