Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance Through the Ages

With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979).

Readers will find the following and more:
-Cambodian writing ranging over fourteen hundred years, from the seventh century to the present;
-translations of classical texts;selections of modern Cambodian poetry, prose, and folk theater;
-contemporary writings by Cambodian refugees and children of the diaspora living in countries from Australia to the United States, Canada, and Europe;
-visual art, including oil paintings by Theanly Chov and excerpts from a graphic novel by Tian Veasna.

"The work included in Out of the Shadows of Angkor is just a part of the vast, diverse repertoire of Cambodian literature created by those born in Cambodia, in the camps, and in new lands. Soth Polin once told me, 'What we have lost is indescribable . . . what we have lost is not reconstructable. An epoch is finished. So when we have literature again, it will be a new literature.' We hope this book brings out of the shadows some of the lost, hidden, and emerging gems of Cambodian literature--past, present, and moving into the future." --From the overview essay by guest editor Sharon May

Author: Frank Stewart
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 09/30/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780824894542

About the Author
Sharon May (Editor) 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).Christophe Macquet (Editor) Christophe Macquet is a translator and writer. He was a professor and coordinator of a literary translation program at the Department of French Language of the Royal University of Phnom Penh from 1994 to 2004.Trent Walker (Editor) Trent Walker is a postdoctoral fellow of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and a lecturer in religious studies at Stanford University. He is a specialist in the traditional manuscripts and changing practices of mainland Southeast Asia.Phina So (Editor) Phina So co-founded Kampu Mera Editions, an independent press in Cambodia, and founded the Khmer Literature Festival. She is the knowledge, network, and policy program manager at Cambodian Living Arts.Rinith Taing (Editor) Rinith Taing is a Cambodian journalist and translator. He received the International Ulrich Wickert Award for Children's Rights for his 2019 article "Children of the Night."


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