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

Author: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Copyright Date: ©2012
Physical Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Contents

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.

Subject(s)

Killing fields (Motion picture)
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—Biography
Political refugees—United States—Biography
Cambodian Americans—Biography
Cambodia—History—1975-1979—Atrocities

ISBN

9780816670963 (hbk. : alk. paper)
081667096X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780816670970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816670978 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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