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UNINA9910786956603321 |
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Autore |
Schlund-Vials Cathy J. <1974-> |
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Titolo |
War, genocide, and justice [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodian American memory work / / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials |
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Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4692-2 |
0-8166-8293-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Cambodia History 1975-1979 Atrocities |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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