In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia

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Frank Stewart, Sharon May
University of Hawaii Press, 2004 M05 31 - 220 pages
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Nearly two million people died in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime. Cambodians who were educated, teachers, artists, and authors were among the first to be killed. One generation later, literature is re-emerging from the ashes. 22 photographs

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Contents

ESSAYS
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The Diabolic Sweetness of Pol Pot 21
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A Search for Cambodian Literature 27 177
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Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Frank Stewart is a writer, translator, and founding editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Sharon May is a writer and photographer. She researched the Khmer Rouge regime for Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights, and guest-edited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia (Mānoa, 2004).

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TitleIn the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia
Volume 16 of Manoa Series
Volume 16, Issue 1 of Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii : 1989)
Volume 13 of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Volume 13 of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal
EditorsFrank Stewart, Sharon May
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized15 Jun 2010
ISBN0824828496, 9780824828493
Length220 pages
  
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