Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide 9780824856090

How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challe

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Rita Smith Kipp (editor)

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Broken Body: Situating Trauma in the Visual Cultures of Cambodia and Its Diaspora
2. Scarred Resilience: The Legacy of the United States’ Secret Bombing of Cambodia
3. Portraits of a Dictator: Khmer Rouge Ideology and the Politics of Aesthetics
4. Of Krama and Khmer Identity: The Land Where the Sugar Palm Trees Grow
5. Performing Khmer Cultural Identity: The Tale/Tail of the Serpent Princess
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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