Introduction 1. The Third-Worlding of Cambodia 2. Jacotot in Cambodia 3. The Gaze and the Tain 4. A Cambodian Hauntology 5. Cambodian Literature as Heterotopia 6. Breakfast with the Dictator 7. Reassembling Memory 8. Precarious Lives
Biography
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim is an Assistant Professor in International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Nigeria. His research interests include critical theory, political economy, and the impact of neoliberalism on countries like Cambodia and Nigeria.
If pitched at students of the philosophy of aesthetics then the appeal of this book is limited, but if read as a series of connected essays on the eschatology of violence in Cambodia then this book stands out with some rare flashes of insight – and brilliance – literally a surrogate to actually visiting the Tuol Sling museum of horrors. - Geoffrey C. Gunn, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau
