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Traces of Trauma - Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide (Hardcover)
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Traces of Trauma - Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide (Hardcover)
Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
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How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find
ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge
following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the
civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence
and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the
erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused
great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth
Ly explores the "traces" of this haunting past in order to
understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with
trauma on such a vast scale. Ly maintains that the production of
visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and
writers-photographers, filmmakers, court dancers, and
poets-embodies traces of trauma, scars leaving an indelible mark on
the body and the psyche. His book considers artists of different
generations and family experiences: a Cambodian-American woman
whose father sent her as a baby to the United States to be adopted;
the Cambodian-French film-maker, Rithy Panh, himself a survivor of
the Khmer Rouge, whose film The Missing Picture was nominated for
an Oscar in 2014; a young Cambodian artist born in 1988-part of the
"post-memory" generation. The works discussed include a variety of
materials and remnants from the historical past: the broken pieces
of a shattered clay pot, the scarred landscape of bomb craters, the
traditional symbolism of the checkered scarf called krama, as well
as the absence of a visual archive. Boreth Ly's poignant book
explores obdurate traces that are fragmented and partial, like the
acts of remembering and forgetting. His interdisciplinary approach,
combining art history, visual studies, psychoanalysis, cultural
studies, religion, and philosophy, is particularly attuned to the
diverse body of material discussed in his book, which includes
photographs, video installations, performance art, poetry, and
mixed media. By analyzing these works through the lens of trauma,
he shows how expressions of a national trauma can contribute to
healing and the reclamation of national identity.
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