Battling the “Cambodian Syndrome”
Battling the “Cambodian Syndrome”
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Khmer Rouge regime, which pursued an untenable agricultural revolution and which was also determined to eradicate any signs of a Western influence. The Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge renamed Cambodia, Democratic Kampuchea and dismantled centuries-old traditions and prerevolutionary socioeconomic infrastructures. This book focuses on both collected and collective memorialization, beginning with author James Young’s examination of Holocaust memorials and remembrance. It investigates how Cambodian American cultural producers have rearticulated and reimagined the Killing Fields era using three distinct and unfixed modes of negation: dominant-held erasures, refugee-oriented ruptures, and juridical open-endedness.
Keywords: Khmer Rouge, agricultural revolution, Pol Pot, Cambodia, Democratic Kampuchea, totalitarian repudiation, memorialization, James Young, remembrance, Killing Fields
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