"Just a Human Being" And Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia: "Just a Human Being" And Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia - Couverture souple

Yamada, Teri Shaffer

 
9781482086355: "Just a Human Being" And Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia: "Just a Human Being" And Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1482086352 ISBN 13 : 9781482086355
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Cambodian writers represented in this collection of short fiction depict the social, political and economic challenges of life in contemporary Cambodia. The various tales provide humanistic insight into Cambodia's world of rapid modernization since the 1990s as the country recovers from decades of political and economic instability. Among the stories. "Just a Human Being," plays on memories of the Khmer Rouge embedded in contemporary bureaucratic practices of the early 1990s. Other stories, like "Lord of the Land" and "The Boat," are allegories about the lingering traces of the Khmer Rouge era on contemporary social relationships and politics. They explore a theme found in many of these stories: the need to overcome karma and reclaim compassion in a desperate world of poverty and sheer survival. Many of the short stories are ethnographic and provide a snapshot into life in contemporary Cambodia.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1482086352
ISBN 13 
9781482086355
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
106
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