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Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts

Literary Life in Myanmar under Censorship and in Transition

Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts( )
Author: Wiles, Ellen
ISBN:978-0-231-17328-5
Publication Date:Sep 2015
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $99.95
Book Description:

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 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...
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