War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work

Resource Information

The work War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work

Creator

• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Author

• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Subject

• Cambodian Americans -- Ethnic identity
• Collective memory
• Genocide -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
• Hip-hop -- California | Long Beach
• Historical museums -- Cambodia
• Killing fields (Motion picture)
• Political atrocities -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
• Political refugees -- Cambodia -- Biography
• Political refugees -- United States -- Biography
• United States
• California -- Long Beach
• Cambodia
• Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979 -- Atrocities
• Cambodian Americans -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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 Justics 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 amnesiac politics and revise citizenship practices in the United States and Cambodia

Member of

• Online access: JSTOR JSTOR Books Complimentary Collection (COVID-19)
• ebscodelete 2020-10-19

Cataloging source

EBZ

LC call number

E184.K45

LC item number

S35 2012eb

Nature of contents

dictionaries