The Resource From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora, Khatharya Um
From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora, Khatharya Um
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The item From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora, Khatharya Um represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781479801978
- Label
- From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora
- Title
- From the land of shadows
- Title remainder
- war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora
- Statement of responsibility
- Khatharya Um
- Subject
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- Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
- Cambodian Americans
- Cambodian Americans -- Interviews
- Cambodian Americans -- Social conditions
- Cambodian Americans -- Social conditions
- Cambodians
- Cambodians -- France -- Interviews
- Cambodians -- Migrations | History -- 20th century
- Cambodja
- France
- Genocide
- Genocide -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- Asia | Southeast Asia
- History
- Interviews
- Political violence
- Political violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and government
- Refugees -- Social conditions
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions
- Totalitarianism -- Social aspects
- Totalitarianism -- Social aspects -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Cambodia -- Interviews
- 1900-1999
- Cambodia
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Um, Khatharya
- Dewey number
- 959.604/2
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS554.8
- LC item number
- .U46 2015eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Nation of nations : immigrant history as American history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cambodia
- Political violence
- Genocide
- Totalitarianism
- Cambodians
- Cambodian Americans
- Refugees
- Cambodian Americans
- Cambodians
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
- HISTORY
- Cambodian Americans
- Cambodian Americans
- Cambodians
- Genocide
- Political violence
- Politics and government
- Refugees
- Totalitarianism
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
- Cambodia
- France
- United States
- Cambodja
- Label
- From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora, Khatharya Um
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 930602637
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781479801978
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt15xx93b
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)930602637
- Label
- From the land of shadows : war, revolution, and the making of the Cambodian diaspora, Khatharya Um
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 930602637
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781479801978
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt15xx93b
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)930602637
Subject
- Cambodia -- Politics and government -- 1975-1979
- Cambodian Americans
- Cambodian Americans -- Interviews
- Cambodian Americans -- Social conditions
- Cambodian Americans -- Social conditions
- Cambodians
- Cambodians -- France -- Interviews
- Cambodians -- Migrations | History -- 20th century
- Cambodja
- France
- Genocide
- Genocide -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- Asia | Southeast Asia
- History
- Interviews
- Political violence
- Political violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and government
- Refugees -- Social conditions
- Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions
- Totalitarianism -- Social aspects
- Totalitarianism -- Social aspects -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Cambodia -- Interviews
- 1900-1999
- Cambodia
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