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

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...

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Main Author: Wiles, Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
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.
Burma > Intellectual life.
Burma > Social conditions.
autobiographies (literary genre)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780231539296
0231539290
0231173288
9780231173285
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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