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War, Genocide, and Justice : Cambodian American Memory Work /

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.