Title Saffron shadows and salvaged scripts : literary life in Myanmar under censorship and in transition / Ellen Wiles

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Literary Life Under the Censorship Regime -- 2. Writers: The Older Generation -- 3. Writers: The Middle Generation -- 4. Writers: The Younger Generation -- 5. Conclusion: Literary Life in Transition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Until 2012, Myanmar had been ruled for fifty years by one of the most paranoid and repressive censorship regimes in history. The military junta enforced strict reading and writing restrictions in line with their socialist ideology and was terrified of writers who could trigger change. Transition has lifted the worst restrictions, initiating a new era in the country's literature and literary culture. Inspired by Ellen Wiles's hunt for contemporary writing while living in Myanmar in 2013, this book explores the experiences and recent output of nine Myanmar writers spanning three generations, featuring interviews and English-language translations of their work, along with political, legal, and artistic analyses. Wiles includes men and women, fiction and poetry, capturing the effects of political and cultural change as they rippled across different groups and genres. Her work contributes both to the general study of art under censorship and beyond to Myanmar's democratic renaissance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on September 8, 2015) Subject Literature and society -- Burma Politics and literature -- Burma Censorship -- Burma Burmese literature -- Social aspects Burmese literature -- Political aspects Authors, Burmese -- 20th century -- Biography Authors, Burmese -- 21st century -- Biography Social change -- Burma BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Asian. Social conditions Authors, Burmese Censorship Intellectual life Literature and society Politics and literature Social change Burmese literature -- Political aspects SUBJECT Burma -- Intellectual life Burma -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001188 Subject Burma Genre/Form Electronic book autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231539296 0231539290 0231173288 9780231173285

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