ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the novel's repeated use of undead frames and haunted registers as a means of further comprehending, through metaphoric and metonymic masquerades, Never Fall Down's spectacular rehearsal of the Cambodian genocide. To clarify and expand, notwithstanding the text's uniquely novelistic registers, distinctly cooperative authorships, and identifiable journalistic aspects, Never Fall Down is in the end legibly and dialogically fixed to its autobiographical predecessors and the contemporaries via the Cambodian American life writing. With the exception of the Muslim Cham and Vietnamese Cambodians, the Khmer Rouge did not exclusively target one ethnic, racial, religious, or national group; nonetheless, some in the international community have questioned whether what happened during the Democratic Kampuchean era fulfills the current definition of genocide. Never Fall Down's juridical stakes necessarily begin with US foreign policy, particularly with the regard to the illegal bombings of the Cambodian countryside.
