War, Genocide, and Justice

Cambodian American Memory Work

Bibliographic Data

ID19907572
AuthorsCathy J Schlund-Vials, Cathy J Schlund‐Vials (corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWar, Genocide, and Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/9780816682935
OpenAlexW4250984836
Open LibraryOL38836553M
ISBN9780816682935
LanguageEN
Citations received19

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 this text 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—this book investigates the remembrance work of Cambodian American cultural producers through film, memoir, and music. The text 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

Amnesty · Citizenship · Crimes against humanity · Criminology · Economic Justice · Genocide · Human rights · International law · Memorialization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Torture · War crime · Cambodian History and Society · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies