War, Genocide, and Justice
Cambodian American Memory Work
University of Minnesota Press · Print & ebook · November 11, 2012
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Explore how Cambodian American artists and writers use film, memoir, and music to remember genocide.
- Themes
- Cambodian American memory work, Genocide remembrance and justice, Asian American critique
- Genres
- Asian American Studies, Genocide & War Crimes, Asian American Lit Crit
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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.
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It is against this background of war, genocide, and denied justice that Cathy J. Schlund-Vials explores the work of 1.5-generation Cambodian American artists and writers. Drawing on what James Young labels “memory work”—the collected articulation of large-scale human loss—War, Genocide, and Justice investigates the remembrance work of Cambodian American cultural producers through film, memoir, and music. Schlund-Vials includes interviews with artists such as Anida Yoeu Ali, praCh Ly, Sambath Hy, and Socheata Poeuv. Alongside the enduring legacy of the Killing Fields and post-9/11 deportations of Cambodian American youth, artists potently reimagine alternative sites for memorialization, reclamation, and justice. Traversing borders, these artists generate forms of genocidal remembrance that combat amnesic politics and revise citizenship practices in the United States and Cambodia. Engaged in politicized acts of resistance, individually produced and communally consumed, Cambodian American memory work represents a significant and previously unexamined site of Asian American critique.
Cambodian American Memory
Explore how Cambodian American artists and writers use film, memoir, and music to remember genocide.
Come here for
- Memory work across film, memoir, and music
- Interviews with Cambodian American artists and writers
Expect
- Attention to remembrance, memorialization, and justice
- Connections to citizenship practices in the United States and Cambodia
Where it sits
| Genocide & War Crimes | 64% |
|---|---|
| Asian American Lit Crit | 59% |
| Asian American Studies | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Asian American Lit Crit
- Asian American Studies
- Authors
- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- November 11, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cambodian American memory work · Genocide remembrance and justice · Asian American critique
- Reading lane
- Asian American Lit Crit