Beyond the Killing Fields : Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America / Usha Welaratna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welaratna, Usha, Author.

Contributor:

Chang, Gordon H., Contributor.

Freeman, ]ames M., Contributor.

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.) : illus

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Asian America

Acknowledgments

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Creating Beyond the Killing Fields

Part I. Pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia

1. Historical Background

2. Society and Culture

3. Look Tha: A Former Buddhist Monk

4. Bopha: A New American

Part II. The Desecration of a Culture

5. The Khmer Rouge Revolution

6. Pu Ma: A Welfare Mother

7. Bun Thab: A Khmer Rouge Escapee

8. Mum: Dad's Little Girl

Part III. In Search of Freedom

9. Coming to America

10. Niseth: A College Student

11. Nya Srey: A Widowed Single Parent

12. Apsara: A Cambodian Wife

13. Koun Srey: A Teenage Daughter

Part IV. Interpretations: Beyond the Killing Fields

14. Life, Death, and the Holocaust

15. Cambodian and American Views of Successful Adjustment

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2216-9

OCLC:

1322125468