War, genocide, and justice
Subtitle: Cambodian American memory work
By: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780816670963; 9780816670970
Subjects: Collective memory; Ethnic identity; Political atrocities; Historical museums; Political refugees; Cambodia; Killing fields (Motion picture); Cambodian Americans; Genocide; Hip-hop; Atrocities; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: battling the "Cambodian syndrome"; title: Atrocity tourism: politicized remembrance and reparative memorialization; title: Screening apology: cinematic culpability in the killing fields and new year baby; title: Growing up under the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American life writing; title: Lost chapters and invisible wars: hip-hop and Cambodian American critique; title: Epilogue: remembering the forgetting.