Title Beyond the killing fields : voices of nine Cambodian survivors in America / Usha Welaratna

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1993

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Description xxi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Asian America Asian America. Contents Foreword / James M. Freeman -- Introduction: Creating Beyond the Killing Fields -- Pt. I. Pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. 1. Historical Background. 2. Society and Culture. 3. Look Tha: A Former Buddhist Monk. 4. Bopha: A New American -- Pt. II. The Desecration of a Culture. 5. The Khmer Rouge Revolution. 6. Pu Ma: A Welfare Mother. 7. Bun Thab: A Khmer Rouge Escapee. 8. Mum: Dad's Little Girl -- Pt. III. In Search of Freedom. 9. Coming to America. 10. Niseth: A College Student. 11. Nya Srey: A Widowed Single Parent. 12. Apsara: A Cambodian Wife. 13. Koun Srey: A Teenage Daughter -- Pt. IV. Interpretations: Beyond the Killing Fields. 14. Life, Death, and the Holocaust. 15. Cambodian and American Views of Successful Adjustment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([281]-285) Subject Political atrocities -- Cambodia. Political refugees -- Cambodia. Political refugees -- United States. SUBJECT Cambodia -- History -- 1975-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019092 Cambodia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019084 -- 1975- LC no. 92028557 ISBN 0804721394 0804723729

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