Teri Shaffer Yamada, Prof. Emerita and former Chair of Asian and Asian American Studies, CSU Long Beach) co-organized and provided fiscal support for the Nou Hach Literary Association (2002-2017), an NGO in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to support emerging Cambodian writers. During this period it published eight volumes of the only literary journal in Cambodia and several bilingual (Khmer-English) poetry and short fiction collections. Her book publications include Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia (2002, Michigan UP), Modern Short Fiction of Southeast Asia: A Literary History (2009, AAAS), and self-published ‘Just a Human Being’ and Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia (2013) and Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation (2016). Recent articles include “Phnom Penh’s Naga World Resort and Casino,” (2017, Journal of Pacific Affairs 90.4, December)
Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Thei... more Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Their short stories reflect the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes experienced in the region during an age of rapid modernization. Both award-winning writers and new talent are represented, including Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Shahnon Ahmad (Malaysia), and Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam). With keen wit, satire, and pathos their stories poignantly illustrate contemporary life and literary currents in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century. Short introductions to each story provide a sketch of the country's literary history, revealing the interaction between individual writers and their sociopolitical situations. Many of the stories are ethnographic and provide snapshots of cultures at a specific historical moment. The stories also reflect gender balance, diversity of style, and quality of literary expression. Exploring everything from the realities of being a middle-aged woman in Burma in the witty drama "An Umbrella" to the difficult choice between appeasing a troubled Vietnamese community or tending to an ailing father in "Tu Ben the Actor," this collection is sure to appeal to a variety of readers the world over. This anthology will be useful in courses in comparative translation and culture, postcolonial studies, political science, Asian history, and gender studies. It is also appropriate for a literary reading public interested in comparative world literature. Teri Shaffer Yamada is Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach.
... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Coleg... more ... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Colegio de Mexico; Bac Hoai Tran, Susan Kepner, and Nguyen Nguyet Cam at the University of California, Berkeley; Tomoko Okada at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; and Nina ...
English translation by Soknea Nhim and Teri Shaffer Yamada of Sok Chanphal's short story "The Ker... more English translation by Soknea Nhim and Teri Shaffer Yamada of Sok Chanphal's short story "The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories." This translation has been reprinted in "Manoa" 33:2-34:1 (winter 2021- summer 2022), pp.191-200.
Sok Chanphal was born in 1984 in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia He received the Southeast Asian Writers Award for Cambodia in 2013. Well known as a popular song lyricist and fiction writer, a number of his short stories have been published in English in "''Just a Human Being' and Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia" (2013), and "Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation" (2016). Other works in Cambodian include the novels "Winter Love" (2010), "Gentleman's Love" (2012), and the short story collection "Tale of the Lamp" (2011).
"The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories" takes place in the infamous Toul Sleng prison (S-21) in Phnom Penh, originally a high school and now a tourist attraction. During the Pol Pot period (1975-1979), it became a site of torture and forced confessions. "How much of this has been forgotten?" is one subtext of this story.
Wenn Sie in Standardwerken über Südostasien nach Einträgen über »zeitgenössische Literatur in Kam... more Wenn Sie in Standardwerken über Südostasien nach Einträgen über »zeitgenössische Literatur in Kambodscha« suchen, werden Sie wahrscheinlich nichts finden. Es gibt natürlich Schriftsteller- und DichterInnen, die literarische Werke produzieren. Doch sie schreiben von den Rändern der öffentlichen Kultur. Warum?
... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Coleg... more ... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Colegio de Mexico; Bac Hoai Tran, Susan Kepner, and Nguyen Nguyet Cam at the University of California, Berkeley; Tomoko Okada at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; and Nina ...
... of the Reform Regime and a Manifesto for a Better Way and Freedom from Command and Control:Re... more ... of the Reform Regime and a Manifesto for a Better Way and Freedom from Command and Control:Rethinking Management for ... Higher Education Policies in the EU and in the Netherlands before andafter the Bologna Declaration. Free University Amsterdam/University ...
Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Thei... more Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Their short stories reflect the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes experienced in the region during an age of rapid modernization. Both award-winning writers and new talent are represented, including Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Shahnon Ahmad (Malaysia), and Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam). With keen wit, satire, and pathos their stories poignantly illustrate contemporary life and literary currents in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century. Short introductions to each story provide a sketch of the country's literary history, revealing the interaction between individual writers and their sociopolitical situations. Many of the stories are ethnographic and provide snapshots of cultures at a specific historical moment. The stories also reflect gender balance, diversity of style, and quality of literary expression. Exploring everything from the realities of being a middle-aged woman in Burma in the witty drama "An Umbrella" to the difficult choice between appeasing a troubled Vietnamese community or tending to an ailing father in "Tu Ben the Actor," this collection is sure to appeal to a variety of readers the world over. This anthology will be useful in courses in comparative translation and culture, postcolonial studies, political science, Asian history, and gender studies. It is also appropriate for a literary reading public interested in comparative world literature. Teri Shaffer Yamada is Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach.
... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Coleg... more ... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Colegio de Mexico; Bac Hoai Tran, Susan Kepner, and Nguyen Nguyet Cam at the University of California, Berkeley; Tomoko Okada at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; and Nina ...
English translation by Soknea Nhim and Teri Shaffer Yamada of Sok Chanphal's short story "The Ker... more English translation by Soknea Nhim and Teri Shaffer Yamada of Sok Chanphal's short story "The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories." This translation has been reprinted in "Manoa" 33:2-34:1 (winter 2021- summer 2022), pp.191-200.
Sok Chanphal was born in 1984 in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia He received the Southeast Asian Writers Award for Cambodia in 2013. Well known as a popular song lyricist and fiction writer, a number of his short stories have been published in English in "''Just a Human Being' and Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia" (2013), and "Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation" (2016). Other works in Cambodian include the novels "Winter Love" (2010), "Gentleman's Love" (2012), and the short story collection "Tale of the Lamp" (2011).
"The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories" takes place in the infamous Toul Sleng prison (S-21) in Phnom Penh, originally a high school and now a tourist attraction. During the Pol Pot period (1975-1979), it became a site of torture and forced confessions. "How much of this has been forgotten?" is one subtext of this story.
Wenn Sie in Standardwerken über Südostasien nach Einträgen über »zeitgenössische Literatur in Kam... more Wenn Sie in Standardwerken über Südostasien nach Einträgen über »zeitgenössische Literatur in Kambodscha« suchen, werden Sie wahrscheinlich nichts finden. Es gibt natürlich Schriftsteller- und DichterInnen, die literarische Werke produzieren. Doch sie schreiben von den Rändern der öffentlichen Kultur. Warum?
... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Coleg... more ... Asia, particularly U Saw Tun at the University of Illinois, Urbana; John Marston at the Colegio de Mexico; Bac Hoai Tran, Susan Kepner, and Nguyen Nguyet Cam at the University of California, Berkeley; Tomoko Okada at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; and Nina ...
... of the Reform Regime and a Manifesto for a Better Way and Freedom from Command and Control:Re... more ... of the Reform Regime and a Manifesto for a Better Way and Freedom from Command and Control:Rethinking Management for ... Higher Education Policies in the EU and in the Netherlands before andafter the Bologna Declaration. Free University Amsterdam/University ...
Brief highlights of social realism in Cambodia's modern literature and art during the modern peri... more Brief highlights of social realism in Cambodia's modern literature and art during the modern period until 2017.
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Sok Chanphal was born in 1984 in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia He received the Southeast Asian Writers Award for Cambodia in 2013. Well known as a popular song lyricist and fiction writer, a number of his short stories have been published in English in "''Just a Human Being' and Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia" (2013), and "Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation" (2016). Other works in Cambodian include the novels "Winter Love" (2010), "Gentleman's Love" (2012), and the short story collection "Tale of the Lamp" (2011).
"The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories" takes place in the infamous Toul Sleng prison (S-21) in Phnom Penh, originally a high school and now a tourist attraction. During the Pol Pot period (1975-1979), it became a site of torture and forced confessions. "How much of this has been forgotten?" is one subtext of this story.
Sok Chanphal was born in 1984 in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia He received the Southeast Asian Writers Award for Cambodia in 2013. Well known as a popular song lyricist and fiction writer, a number of his short stories have been published in English in "''Just a Human Being' and Other Tales from Contemporary Cambodia" (2013), and "Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation" (2016). Other works in Cambodian include the novels "Winter Love" (2010), "Gentleman's Love" (2012), and the short story collection "Tale of the Lamp" (2011).
"The Kerosene Lamp Ghost Stories" takes place in the infamous Toul Sleng prison (S-21) in Phnom Penh, originally a high school and now a tourist attraction. During the Pol Pot period (1975-1979), it became a site of torture and forced confessions. "How much of this has been forgotten?" is one subtext of this story.