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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 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on September 8, 2015) |
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Literature and society -- Burma
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Politics and literature -- Burma
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Censorship -- Burma
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Burmese literature -- Social aspects
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Burmese literature -- Political aspects
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Authors, Burmese -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, Burmese -- 21st century -- Biography
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Social change -- Burma
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Asian.
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Social conditions
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Authors, Burmese
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Censorship
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Intellectual life
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Literature and society
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Politics and literature
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Social change
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Burmese literature -- Political aspects
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Burma -- Intellectual life
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Burma -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2012001188
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Burma
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Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780231539296 |
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0231539290 |
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0231173288 |
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9780231173285 |
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