LEADER 04262nam 2200805 450 001 9910460608303321 005 20210513215748.0 010 $a0-231-53929-0 024 7 $a10.7312/wile17328 035 $a(CKB)3710000000461308 035 $a(EBL)1974553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001531284 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12584294 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001531284 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11463256 035 $a(PQKB)11414389 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001200437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1974553 035 $a(DE-B1597)458548 035 $a(OCoLC)918998821 035 $a(OCoLC)919252299 035 $a(OCoLC)979577733 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231539296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1974553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL826507 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000461308 100 $a20150822h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSaffron shadows and salvaged scripts $eliterary life in Myanmar under censorship and in transition /$fEllen Wiles 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-17328-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPrologue --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Literary Life Under the Censorship Regime --$t2. Writers: The Older Generation --$t3. Writers: The Middle Generation --$t4. Writers: The Younger Generation --$t5. Conclusion: Literary Life in Transition --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis book tells an ethnographic story of a secret literary culture that has recently emerged from its cocoon. Until 2012, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was 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 ideology, feared writers' potential to trigger change, and did their best to keep Western books and influences out of the country. As part of an unexpected move toward democracy, the government has recently lifted the worst restrictions on reading and writing, giving rise to a new era in the country's literature and literary culture. While living in Myanmar in 2013, Ellen Wiles sought out the best of its contemporary writers and writing to begin uncovering the country's remarkable literary life and history. This book contains 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 explorations. It includes men and women, fiction and poetry, reflecting the ripples of political and cultural change as they have moved across different groups and genres. A rare portrait of a people and place in transition, Wiles's work contributes both to the study of literature and culture in Myanmar and to the general study of art under censorship. 606 $aLiterature and society$zBurma 606 $aPolitics and literature$zBurma 606 $aCensorship$zBurma 606 $aBurmese literature$xSocial aspects 606 $aBurmese literature$xPolitical aspects 606 $aAuthors, Burmese$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aAuthors, Burmese$y21st century$vBiography 606 $aSocial change$zBurma 607 $aBurma$xIntellectual life 607 $aBurma$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aCensorship 615 0$aBurmese literature$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aBurmese literature$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aAuthors, Burmese 615 0$aAuthors, Burmese 615 0$aSocial change 676 $a895/.809 700 $aWiles$b Ellen$0847454 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460608303321 996 $aSaffron shadows and salvaged scripts$92466607 997 $aUNINA