Beyond the Killing Fields : Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America (Asian America)

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Beyond the Killing Fields : Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America (Asian America)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 400 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780804721394
  • DDC分類 959.604

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In 1975, after years of civil war, Cambodians welcomed the Khmer Rouge. Once in power, the regime closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into 'killing fields'. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of Cambodians fled their homeland. This book presents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine powerful first-person narratives of men, women, and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.

Contents

Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Pre-Khmer Rouge CambodiaHistorical background; 2. Society and culture; 3. Look Tha: a former Buddhist monk; 4. Bopha: a new American: Part II. The Desecration of a Culture: 5. The Khmer Rouge revolution; 6. Pu Ma: a welfare mother; 7. Bun Thab: a Khmer Rouge escape; 8. Mum: dad's little girl; Part III. In Search of Freedom: 9. Coming to America; 10. Niseth: a college student; 11. Nya Srey: a widowed single parent; 12. Apsara: a Combodian wife; 13. Koun Srey: a teenage daughter; Part IV. Interpretations: Beyond the Killing Fields: 14. Life, death, and the holocaust; 15. Cambodian and American views of successful adjustment; Bibliography; Figures.