Leaving the House of Ghosts: Cambodian Refugees in the American MidwestMcFarland, 2010 M06 28 - 223 páginas On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major cities and forced the residents on a mass exodus to the countryside. Their leader, Pol Pot, established a government based on terror to bring about his dream of an agrarian society where work was done by hand--without what he believed to be corruptive influences. By the time the Vietnamese captured Phnom Penh and ended this brutal experiment in communism in 1979, an estimated two million Cambodians were dead and hundreds of thousands had begun to flee the country for refugee camps in Thailand. Survivors of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge now living in the Midwest tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but now able to reveal the trauma they experienced. Noeun Nor and Sinn Lok recollect being wrenched from their families and put into labor camps around the age of five. Prum Nath talks about her mother encouraging her to eat the last grains of her family's rice. Sokhary You remembers giving birth on a mountain without a doctor or hospital and using rusty scissors to cut the umbilical cord. |
Contenido
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The Cambodian Autogenocide and Its Aftermath | 5 |
The Story of Noeun Nor 221 | 27 |
The Story of Sinn Lok | 35 |
Crappie Fishing on Galpin Lake | 47 |
The Story of Prum Nath | 52 |
Why Do Some Survive? | 64 |
The Story of Sam and Sokhary You | 71 |
The Story of Samantha Samreth | 124 |
Housewarming | 140 |
The Story of Sarith Ou | 148 |
To Go Forward | 158 |
The Story of Sophea Mouth | 164 |
Coming Full Circle | 187 |
A Chronology | 197 |
203 | |
That Ordinary Monster Pol Pot | 94 |
The Story of Sokkhom Ngep | 103 |
The Next Generation | 117 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Leaving the House of Ghosts: Cambodian Refugees in the American Midwest Sarah Streed Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program ... Sucheng Chan Vista previa limitada - 2005 |