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

by Boreth Ly

Book Overview

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 artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888456
• ISBN13: 9780824888459
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"