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From the Land of Shadows - War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora (Paperback)
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From the Land of Shadows - War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Nation of Nations
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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.
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