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

About the author

Boreth Ly is associate professor of Southeast Asian art history and visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary

Explores the "traces" of Cambodia’s haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale. Boreth Ly maintains that the production of visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and writers embodies traces of trauma, scars leaving an indelible mark on the body and the psyche.

Product details

• Authors: Boreth Ly
• Assisted by: David P Chandler (Editor), David P. Chandler (Editor), Rita Smith Kipp (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780824888459
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8845-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education