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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463032603321

Autore

Schlund-Vials Cathy J. <1974->

Titolo

War, genocide, and justice [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodian American memory work / / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4692-2

0-8166-8293-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

959.604/2

Soggetti

Cambodian Americans - Ethnic identity

Collective memory

Genocide - Cambodia - History - 20th century

Political atrocities - Cambodia - History - 20th century

Historical museums - Cambodia

Hip-hop - California - Long Beach

Political refugees - Cambodia

Political refugees - United States

Cambodian Americans

Electronic books.

Cambodia History 1975-1979 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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