Cathy J Schlund‐Vials
Biographic Data
| ID | 5651871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy J Schlund‐Vials |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlund‐Vials |
| SIGNATURE | VIALS C J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards Empathy
Towards Empathy: A Conversation with Vichet Chum Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio) and Vichet Chum (bio) Ma used to say because the Khmer Rouge invaded on the new year...we’ve learned to mourn and celebrate in the same breath. Vichet Chum, Bald Sisters Thirteen days before the American War in Vietnam (1959–1975) came to a dramatic close with the April 30, 1975 “Fall of Saigon,” the Khmer Rouge (a.k.a. “Red Cambodians”) marched triumphantly into Cambod…
The Why and Whither of Asian American Studies
The Why and Whither of Asian American StudiesToward a Reckoning Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio), Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (bio), and Paul Spickard1 (bio) Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"2 Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. ... Tomorrow's world is yours…
Love and Resistance in a Time of Covid
Love and Resistance in a Time of COVID: American Studies and Utopic Critique Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio) Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It’s a love note for our people, but it’s also a demand. Even if we are going to get an indictment or a guilty verdict, that actually would not provide us with the larger vision of liberation that our communities actually deserve. . . . we deserve to live in a world where we are not …
Afterword-The Racialized Past is Racist Prologue
Situated adjacent to the essentializing logics and combative rhetorics that have largely defined the Trump administration's "war" on history, specifically regarding initiatives such as the "White House Conference on American History" and the "1776 Commission," this afterword considers the distinctive significance and ongoing consequence of ethnic American literary engagements with a frequently debated and still unreconciled US past. To illustrate…
Diaspora Revisited
This essay explores how Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada in 1983, shapes diasporic subjectivity. Examining Audre Lorde's "Grenada Revisited" (1984) and Monica Sok's "Yearning" (2016), the author argues that these two texts dialogically form a diasporic feminist synthesis that refuses—in the face of overpowering American military might, bellicose melancholy, diasporic loss, and pervasive indifference—to disremember. Ultimately, it is…
Tactical Resistance and Strategic Remembrance
Early in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), the unnamed narrator recollects his grandfather’s final piece of advice. Expressly, the grandfather avers: Son, after I’m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ’em with y…
Restaging, Reconfiguring and Recollecting Perpetratorhood
Toward Decolonization
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Art, Activism, and Agitation
54 Portfolio Curated by Cathy J. Schlund- Vials Art, Activism, and Agitation: Anida Yoeu Ali If you encounter the Red Chador, will you fear her or walk with her? Would you help her across the terrain or would you block her path? Would you take a moment to notice her? Would you care at all? — The Red Chador, exhibit brochure, Trinity College, December 2015 This is a time when presidential candidates can make extremely Islamophobic comments and n…
Anti-Imperialist Modernism
On 8 November 1931, the New York Times published an anonymously authored piece titled, “Ills of Cuba Laid to Our Policy Over There.” Reporting on a lecture delivered by Cuban editor, lawyer, and ethnomusicologist/anthropologist Dr. Fernando Ortiz to the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, this provocatively titled article focused specifically on the vexed question of US intervention. Just three months prior, on 14 August, Cuba had…
Evincing Cambodia's Genocide
Despite the passage of almost four decades since the end of the so-known “Killing Fields Era,” to date only three Khmer Rouge officials have been successfully tried and convicted for crimes against humanity. This article opens with such “belatedness” as a means of contextualizing the juridical politics of and historical indictments embedded in Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture (2013)
The Subjects of 1975
Set against a backdrop of contemporary refugee crises, this epilogue considers the strategic amensias of displaced forgetting - particularly as it concerns diasporic Southeast Asian Americans - and evaluates the efficacy of a critical refugee studies approach in militating against these erasures
Rethinking Embodiment and Hybridity
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Interrogating the perpetrator
Unbecoming Americans
With little celebration and no formal ceremony, the first federal immigration station on Ellis Island, New York opened its proverbial doors on January 1, 1892. The next day, a New York Times article titled “Landed on Ellis Island: New Immigration Buildings Opened Yesterday” detailed the station’s inauspicious beginnings and initial reception. Previously, would-be Americans traveled to the Barge Office, located on the southern tip of the Battery (…
Drawing from Resistance
Cathy Schlund-Vials's essay examines the groundbreaking Asian American graphic narrative collection, Secret Identities (2009). Schlund-Vials argues that the comic's form provides Asian American artists and writers to speculate on non-normative and exceptional identities by putting a twist on the all-American superhero folklore. According to Schlund-Vials's analysis, graphic narratives offer a culture venue to explore alternative histories and ide…
War, Genocide, and Justice
Contents Introduction: Battling the 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.
Cambodian American Memory Work
This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay shifts to an overview of Cambodian American cultural production in order to explore the status of memory in the country of origin and the country of settlement, and to illustrate…
Response to Jonathan Freedman
Journal Article Response to Jonathan Freedman Get access Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 45–46, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0025 Published: 01 June 2012
Asian American Studies Now
Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. Ed. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xviii + 654 pages. $37.50 paper. Get access Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. Ed. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xviii + 654 pages. $37.50 paper. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by…
Hip-Hop Memoirs
Journal Article Hip-Hop Memoirs: An Interview with Khmer American Rapper praCh Get access Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 159–173, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0061 Published: 01 December 2011
Re‐seeing race in a post‐Obama age
Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. Such historical and educational frames foreground a deeper discussion about the possibilities and challenges associated with cross‐cultural, cross‐racial pedagogies within Asian American studies and ethnic studies
Modeling Citizenship
Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging. …
War, Genocide, and Justice
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 …
A Transnational Hip Hop Nation
Through a close reading of Cambodian American rapper praCh's Dalama: The End'n Is Just the Beginnin’, I argue that his work embodies musical traditions, histories, and experiences from both the country of origin and the country of settlement. In analysing the story of its reception in Cambodia, I place his work within a larger schema of Cambodian American youth cultural production, which is marked by attempts to negotiate complicated US racial po…
The Subjects of 1975
Set against a backdrop of contemporary refugee crises, this epilogue considers the strategic amensias of displaced forgetting - particularly as it concerns diasporic Southeast Asian Americans - and evaluates the efficacy of a critical refugee studies approach in militating against these erasures
Art, Activism, and Agitation
54 Portfolio Curated by Cathy J. Schlund- Vials Art, Activism, and Agitation: Anida Yoeu Ali If you encounter the Red Chador, will you fear her or walk with her? Would you help her across the terrain or would you block her path? Would you take a moment to notice her? Would you care at all? — The Red Chador, exhibit brochure, Trinity College, December 2015 This is a time when presidential candidates can make extremely Islamophobic comments and n…
Interrogating the perpetrator
Cambodian American Memory Work
This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay shifts to an overview of Cambodian American cultural production in order to explore the status of memory in the country of origin and the country of settlement, and to illustrate…
The Why and Whither of Asian American Studies
The Why and Whither of Asian American StudiesToward a Reckoning Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio), Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (bio), and Paul Spickard1 (bio) Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"2 Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. ... Tomorrow's world is yours…
Response to Jonathan Freedman
Journal Article Response to Jonathan Freedman Get access Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 45–46, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0025 Published: 01 June 2012
Re‐seeing race in a post‐Obama age
Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. Such historical and educational frames foreground a deeper discussion about the possibilities and challenges associated with cross‐cultural, cross‐racial pedagogies within Asian American studies and ethnic studies
Blood Cherries (review)
Asian American Literary Studies, and
Reviewed by: Asian American Literary Studies, and: Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing, and: Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio) Asian American Literary Studies. Edited by Guiyou Huang . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing. Edited by Rocío G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2…
A Transnational Hip Hop Nation
Through a close reading of Cambodian American rapper praCh's Dalama: The End'n Is Just the Beginnin’, I argue that his work embodies musical traditions, histories, and experiences from both the country of origin and the country of settlement. In analysing the story of its reception in Cambodia, I place his work within a larger schema of Cambodian American youth cultural production, which is marked by attempts to negotiate complicated US racial po…
Modeling Citizenship
Navigating deftly among historical and literary readings, Cathy Schlund-Vials examines the analogous yet divergent experiences of Asian Americans and Jewish Americans in Modeling Citizenship. She investigates how these model minority groups are shaped by the shifting terrain of naturalization law and immigration policy, using the lens of naturalization, not assimilation, to underscore questions of nation-state affiliation and sense of belonging. …
War, Genocide, and Justice
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 …
Asian American Studies Now
Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. Ed. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xviii + 654 pages. $37.50 paper. Get access Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. Ed. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xviii + 654 pages. $37.50 paper. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by…
Hip-Hop Memoirs
Journal Article Hip-Hop Memoirs: An Interview with Khmer American Rapper praCh Get access Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 159–173, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0061 Published: 01 December 2011
Re‐seeing race in a post‐Obama age
Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. Such historical and educational frames foreground a deeper discussion about the possibilities and challenges associated with cross‐cultural, cross‐racial pedagogies within Asian American studies and ethnic studies
War, Genocide, and Justice
Contents Introduction: Battling the 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.
Cambodian American Memory Work
This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay shifts to an overview of Cambodian American cultural production in order to explore the status of memory in the country of origin and the country of settlement, and to illustrate…
Response to Jonathan Freedman
Journal Article Response to Jonathan Freedman Get access Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Cathy J. Schlund-Vials University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 45–46, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0025 Published: 01 June 2012
Drawing from Resistance
Cathy Schlund-Vials's essay examines the groundbreaking Asian American graphic narrative collection, Secret Identities (2009). Schlund-Vials argues that the comic's form provides Asian American artists and writers to speculate on non-normative and exceptional identities by putting a twist on the all-American superhero folklore. According to Schlund-Vials's analysis, graphic narratives offer a culture venue to explore alternative histories and ide…
Unbecoming Americans
With little celebration and no formal ceremony, the first federal immigration station on Ellis Island, New York opened its proverbial doors on January 1, 1892. The next day, a New York Times article titled “Landed on Ellis Island: New Immigration Buildings Opened Yesterday” detailed the station’s inauspicious beginnings and initial reception. Previously, would-be Americans traveled to the Barge Office, located on the southern tip of the Battery (…
Rethinking Embodiment and Hybridity
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Interrogating the perpetrator
Evincing Cambodia's Genocide
Despite the passage of almost four decades since the end of the so-known “Killing Fields Era,” to date only three Khmer Rouge officials have been successfully tried and convicted for crimes against humanity. This article opens with such “belatedness” as a means of contextualizing the juridical politics of and historical indictments embedded in Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture (2013)
The Subjects of 1975
Set against a backdrop of contemporary refugee crises, this epilogue considers the strategic amensias of displaced forgetting - particularly as it concerns diasporic Southeast Asian Americans - and evaluates the efficacy of a critical refugee studies approach in militating against these erasures
Toward Decolonization
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Art, Activism, and Agitation
54 Portfolio Curated by Cathy J. Schlund- Vials Art, Activism, and Agitation: Anida Yoeu Ali If you encounter the Red Chador, will you fear her or walk with her? Would you help her across the terrain or would you block her path? Would you take a moment to notice her? Would you care at all? — The Red Chador, exhibit brochure, Trinity College, December 2015 This is a time when presidential candidates can make extremely Islamophobic comments and n…
Anti-Imperialist Modernism
On 8 November 1931, the New York Times published an anonymously authored piece titled, “Ills of Cuba Laid to Our Policy Over There.” Reporting on a lecture delivered by Cuban editor, lawyer, and ethnomusicologist/anthropologist Dr. Fernando Ortiz to the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, this provocatively titled article focused specifically on the vexed question of US intervention. Just three months prior, on 14 August, Cuba had…
Tactical Resistance and Strategic Remembrance
Early in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), the unnamed narrator recollects his grandfather’s final piece of advice. Expressly, the grandfather avers: Son, after I’m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ’em with y…
Restaging, Reconfiguring and Recollecting Perpetratorhood
Diaspora Revisited
This essay explores how Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada in 1983, shapes diasporic subjectivity. Examining Audre Lorde's "Grenada Revisited" (1984) and Monica Sok's "Yearning" (2016), the author argues that these two texts dialogically form a diasporic feminist synthesis that refuses—in the face of overpowering American military might, bellicose melancholy, diasporic loss, and pervasive indifference—to disremember. Ultimately, it is…
Afterword-The Racialized Past is Racist Prologue
Situated adjacent to the essentializing logics and combative rhetorics that have largely defined the Trump administration's "war" on history, specifically regarding initiatives such as the "White House Conference on American History" and the "1776 Commission," this afterword considers the distinctive significance and ongoing consequence of ethnic American literary engagements with a frequently debated and still unreconciled US past. To illustrate…
The Why and Whither of Asian American Studies
The Why and Whither of Asian American StudiesToward a Reckoning Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (bio), Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (bio), and Paul Spickard1 (bio) Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"2 Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. ... Tomorrow's world is yours…
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