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



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Autore: Schlund-Vials Cathy J. <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: War, genocide, and justice [[electronic resource] ] : Cambodian American memory work / / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 959.604/2
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Cambodia History 1975-1979 Atrocities
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
Titolo autorizzato: War, genocide, and justice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4692-2
0-8166-8293-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786956603321
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