Traces of trauma : Cambodian visual culture and national identity in the aftermath of genocide /

"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 artist...

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Auteur principal: Ly, Boreth (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press [2020]
Collection:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvgs08tz
Table des matières:
  • Broken body: situating trauma in the visual cultures of Cambodia and its diaspora
  • Scarred resilience: the legacy of the United States' secret bombing of Cambodia
  • Portraits of a dictator: Khmer Rouge ideology and the politics of aesthetics
  • Of krama and Khmer identity: the land where the sugar palm trees grow
  • Performing Khmer cultural identity: the tale/tail of the serpent princess.