From the Land of Shadows War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora / Khatharya Um.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Um, Khatharya, author.

Series:

Nation of nations (NYU Press)

Nation of nations : immigrant history as American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

Totalitarianism--Social aspects.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Political violence.

Genocide.

Cambodians.

Cambodian Americans--Social conditions.

Cambodian Americans.

United States.

France.

Cambodia.

Genre:

Interviews.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand people finding refuge in America. From The Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on over 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Historical timeline

Administrative map of Democratic Kampuchea

Part I. Life and death under the Khmer Rouge

The prisoner

Violence in utopia

The children of Angkar

Part II. Historicizing diaspora

Prelude to terror : peace, war, and revolution

From peasants to revolutionaries

Instrumentality of terror

Part III. Cambodian/Americans and the legacies of genocide

Fragments

Homeland, exile, and return

Epilogue: Apology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-0197-6

OCLC:

930602637