War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work

Cathy Schlund-Vials provides the first important monograph of Cambodian American literary and cultural critique, leading us to new ground in the burgeoning field of Southeast Asian American studies and underrepresented voices in Asian American literature. The book also tends to use varied nomenclatu...

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Published inMELUS Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 210 - 212
Main Author Lam, Mariam B.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.12.2014
Subjects
Asian Americans
Autobiographies
Genocide
Hip hop culture
Literature
Memory
Politics
Reviews
War
United States > US
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Summary:Cathy Schlund-Vials provides the first important monograph of Cambodian American literary and cultural critique, leading us to new ground in the burgeoning field of Southeast Asian American studies and underrepresented voices in Asian American literature. The book also tends to use varied nomenclature interchangeably: "the Vietnam War," "the American War in Vietnam," "the Cold War," "the American War in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos," and "the Cambodian Civil War."
ISSN:0163-755X
1946-3170
DOI:10.1093/melus/mlu046