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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780816670963 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780816670970 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.6042 SCH
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index.

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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