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ISBN: 9781479801978

Series Statement: Nation of Nations ; 14

Content: 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 that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand 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 more than 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Historical Timeline -- , Administrative map of Democratic Kampuchea -- , Introduction -- , The Prisoner -- , 1. Violence in Utopia -- , 2. The Children of Angkar -- , 3. Prelude to Terror -- , 4. From Peasants to Revolutionaries -- , 5. Instrumentality of Terror -- , 6. Fragments -- , 7. Homeland, Exile, and Return -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9781479801978

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479801978

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 9781479801978 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Nation of nations

Content: 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 labour, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand people finding refuge in America. This book surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2015.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781479804733

Language: English

URL: NYU scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (344 p.)

ISBN: 1-4798-0197-6

Series Statement: Nation of nations : immigrant history as American history

Content: "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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 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. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-5823-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-0473-8

Language: English

Keywords: Interviews. ; Interviews. ; History.

DOI: 10.18574/9781479801978