Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States, Sucheng Chan (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 337 pp., cloth 45.00, pbk. 25.00
It has become a truism that, for survivors of genocide, the destruction does not end when the killing stops. The obliteration of families, communities, entire ways of life; the persistence of flashbacks and nightmares; continuing efforts to achieve some semblance of justice and establish appropriate...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-146 |
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| Summary: | It has become a truism that, for survivors of genocide, the destruction does not end when the killing stops. The obliteration of families, communities, entire ways of life; the persistence of flashbacks and nightmares; continuing efforts to achieve some semblance of justice and establish appropriate remembrance; the retrieval of remnants of the world before; the multiple tasks of recreating life and livelihood (which are much more difficult in a new language and culture): all of these factors make “survival” not a fact but a process that is negotiated and renegotiated throughout the years. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcj017 |