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Schlund-Vials Cathy J. <1974->
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Titolo: |
War, genocide, and justice : Cambodian American memory work / / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4692-2 |
0-8166-8293-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816839203321 |
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