Out of the shadows of Angkor: Cambodian poetry, prose, and performance through the ages

Foreword / Vaddey Ratner

On Cambodian American writers / Sokunthary Svay

Out of the shadows of Angkor / Sharon May

Cambodian literature: an introduction / Trent Walker

Classical. 600-1400. Warning to thieves / Inscription

In praise of Sister Queens / Queen Indradevi

Hymn to the Tree of Awakening / Inscription

Hymn for the Elephants' Feast / Khun Thepkrawi

1400-1700. Reamker / Epic

Code of old sayings / Brah Sugandh

My soul of gold / Brah Rajasambhar

Victory in the eight directions / Chant

Goddesses of the land / Traditional oath

1700-1930. Ancestral offerings ; In bloom ; Windswept pond ; Rowing the boat / Folk songs

The point of the cape / Folk song

The thirty-three consonants ; This life is short ; Hymn to the Buddha's feet / Buddhist song tradition

Thunder and the crabs / Anonymous

Code for girls / Mai

Kaki / King Ang Duong

A garland of new advice / Krom Ngoy

A cycle of Alev stories / Folklore

Journey to Angkor Wat / Ukna Suttantaprija Ind

Tum teav / Brah Padumatther Som

Poetry. 1930-2020. On the threshold of the Khmer narthex / Prince Areno Yukanthor

The orphans / Suy Hieng

A small request / Khun Srun

A hundred scents, a hundred seasons / Khau Ny Kim

Don't fight the wind ; A bunch of coconuts / Chey Chap

A cry / Prince Amrindo Sisowath

Bound to his father / Pen Samitthy

What would you like to eat? / Huot Iv

The race of the quick / Kong Bunchhoeun

The fate of bloodsuckers / Yin Luoth

The ox with the broken hoof ; Man and krasang ; The sun turns leprous / Pich Tum Kravel

Exiting interview ; My brother Thay / Chath pierSath

Moon in Khmer ; An elegy for a fellow Cambodian ; Living in the hyphen ; Fishing for trey platoo / Bunkong Tuon

blessing dance ; dance, dance, dance / Princess Moon

Dream ; Rewind ; Peace in pieces / Kosal Khiev

Reincarnation / Sokunthary Svay

Ma's canh chua recipe / Mylo Lam

Our name ; Dear ghosts ; Shall we dance? / Greg Santos

Fiction. 1940-2020. Wilted flower / Nou Hach

A new sun rises over the old land / Suon Sorin

An introduction to The accused / Christophe Macquet

The accused / Khun Srun

Command me to exist ; The anarchist ; The aroma of desire in Fresno / Soth Polin

Sky of the lost moon / Ty Chi Huot

The kerosene lamp ghost stories ; Buried treasure / Sok Chanphal

Nonfiction. 1970-2022. Political prison / Bunchan Mol

Of performance and the persistent temporality of trauma / Boreth Ly

Her father's daughter / Alice Pung

At sea, and seeking a safe harbor / Putsata Reang

Painting history / Elizabeth Chey

Cambodian requiem / Sokunthary Svay

The bookrenter of Battambang and the master of uselessness / Rinith Taing

Contemporary writing and publishing in Cambodia freshwater crayfish and the trouble with names / Phina So

An archive of haunting / Maria Hach

Performance. 1960-2020. A pair of turtledoves ; The fishing eagle of Boeng Kansaeng / Ma Laupi

Champa of Battambang / Sinn Sisamouth

The shade of the tenth coconut tree / Kong Bunchhoeun

Farewell, wild guava flower / Sim Chanya

When Ream faked his death to win back Seda / Bassac Folk Opera

A flirtatious battle of words and wits / Ayai Folk Theater

The big tusker / Songsaeng Rungrueangchai

Lullaby: an elephant rocks its trunk / Kong Nay

A musician's life: an interview with Kong Nay / Sharon May

Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso ; Here and now, into the future / Prumsodun Ok

Letters from home / Kalean Ung

Graphic novel. Year of the Rabbit / Tian Veasna. Sharon May, Christophe Macquet, Trent Walker, Phina So, Rinith Taing, guest editors.