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Asian American History & Cultu

The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia

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Asian American History & Cultu

The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia

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Cambodian history is Cold War history, asserts Y-Dang Troeung in Refugee Lifeworlds.   Constructing a genealogy of the afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, Troeung mines historical archives and family anecdotes to illuminate the refugee experience, and the enduring impact of war, genocide, and displacement in the lives of Cambodian people. 

Troeung, a child of refugees herself, employs a method of autotheory that melds critical theory, autobiography, and textual analysis to examine the work of contemporary artists, filmmakers, and authors. She references a proverb about the Cambodian kapok tree that speaks to the silences, persecutions, and modes of resistance enacted during the Cambodian Genocide, and highlights various literary texts, artworks, and films that seek to document and preserve Cambodian histories nearly extinguished by the Khmer Rouge regime. 

Addressing the various artistic responses to prisons and camps, issues of trauma, disability, and aphasia, as well as racism and decolonialism, Refugee Lifeworlds repositions Cambodia within the broader transpacific formation of the Cold War. In doing so, Troeung reframes questions of international complicity and responsibility in ways that implicate us all. 

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Year
2022
ISBN
9781439921784

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface: A Genealogy of the Cold War in Cambodia
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: On War, Disability, and Refugee Life
  5. 1. Cambodia’s Cold War Episteme
  6. 2. Debility and the U.S. Bombing of Cambodia
  7. 3. Cripping the Kapok Tree and the Cambodian Genocide
  8. 4. Aphasia and the Nervous Condition of Refugee Asylum
  9. Coda: Boneyards of the Cold War
  10. Notes
  11. Index