From the Land of Shadows, War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora, Khatharya Um
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From the Land of Shadows, War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora, Khatharya Um
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
From the Land of Shadows
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
906010892
Responsibility statement
Khatharya Um
Series statement
Nation of nations : immigrant history as American history
Sub title
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
Summary
"In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand people finding refuge in America. From The Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on over 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history"--Publisher's website
Table Of Contents
Historical timeline -- Administrative map of Democratic Kampuchea -- Part I. Life and death under the Khmer Rouge -- The prisoner -- Violence in utopia -- The children of Angkar -- Part II. Historicizing diaspora -- Prelude to terror : peace, war, and revolution -- From peasants to revolutionaries -- Instrumentality of terror -- Part III. Cambodian/Americans and the legacies of genocide -- Fragments -- Homeland, exile, and return -- Epilogue: Apology
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Subject
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions
- Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
- Cambodians -- France -- Interviews
- 89.58 political violence
- Victimes du terrorisme d'État -- Cambodge -- Entretiens
- Totalitarisme + Aspect social -- Cambodge -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Genocide -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- 89.40 internal relations of the state: general
- Cambodians + Migrations + History -- 20th century
- Cambodgiens -- France -- Entretiens
- interviews
- Political violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- 74.94 migration (demography)
- Cambodja
- Interview
- Totalitarianism + Social aspects -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Cambodia -- Interviews
- Cambodian Americans + Social conditions
- Interviews
- Américains d'origine cambodgienne + Conditions sociales
- Américains d'origine cambodgienne -- Entretiens
- Cambodge -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1975-1979
- Violence politique -- Cambodge -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Cambodian Americans -- Interviews
- Cambodgiens + Migrations + Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Réfugiés -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
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- Subject26
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions
- Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
- Cambodians -- France -- Interviews
- 89.58 political violence
- Victimes du terrorisme d'État -- Cambodge -- Entretiens
- Totalitarisme + Aspect social -- Cambodge -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Genocide -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- 89.40 internal relations of the state: general
- Cambodians + Migrations + History -- 20th century
- Cambodgiens -- France -- Entretiens
- interviews
- Political violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- 74.94 migration (demography)
- Cambodja
- Interview
- Totalitarianism + Social aspects -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Cambodia -- Interviews
- Cambodian Americans + Social conditions
- Interviews
- Américains d'origine cambodgienne + Conditions sociales
- Américains d'origine cambodgienne -- Entretiens
- Cambodge -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1975-1979
- Violence politique -- Cambodge -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Cambodian Americans -- Interviews
- Cambodgiens + Migrations + Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Réfugiés -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
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