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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.



Table of Contents


Contents




Introduction: Battling the “Cambodian Syndrome”


1. Atrocity Tourism: Politicized Remembrance and Reparative Memorialization


2. Screening Apology: Cinematic Culpability in The Killing Fields and New Year Baby


3. Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Life Writing


4. Lost Chapters and Invisible Wars: Hip Hop and Cambodian American Critique


Epilogue: Remembering the Forgetting




Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index



War Genocide and Justice

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 11/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780816670970, 978-0816670970
      ISBN10: 0816670978
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents


      Contents




      Introduction: Battling the “Cambodian Syndrome”


      1. Atrocity Tourism: Politicized Remembrance and Reparative Memorialization


      2. Screening Apology: Cinematic Culpability in The Killing Fields and New Year Baby


      3. Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Life Writing


      4. Lost Chapters and Invisible Wars: Hip Hop and Cambodian American Critique


      Epilogue: Remembering the Forgetting




      Acknowledgments

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index



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