Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts : : Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition / / Ellen Wiles.
This 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 w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 32 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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