Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
    Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
    Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
    Ebook398 pages5 hours

    Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition

    By Ellen Wiles

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherColumbia University Press
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9780231539296
    Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition

    Related to Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts

    Related ebooks

    Asian History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Imprisoned for His Writing, Ahmed Naji Found Freedom in Literature

      Nov 15, 2023

      "My aim is to provoke thought, prompting people to address lingering questions about the purpose of imprisonment." The post Imprisoned for His Writing, Ahmed Naji Found Freedom in Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Diving Deep

      May 8, 2017

      Serial immersionist TED CONOVER on the connections between anthropology and journalism; knowing when to resist digression; and the importance of writing “across the aisle.” TED CONOVER has spent his entire career delving into different cultural world

      18 min read

    • Article

      From Thus Spoke n’t

      Jul 5, 2023

      From Thus Spoke n’t
      10 min read

    • Article

      From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

      Apr 18, 2017

      “I’ve often said it was the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsis in 1994 that made me a writer.” These are the words of author Scholastique Mukasonga, a Tutsi who lost 27 family members—including her mother and father—when Hutu throughout her nation murdered

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Nightingale in the Lion’s Den

      May 22, 2020

      Genç wanted his nonfiction to read like fiction. If that is the litmus test, The Lion and the Nightingale earns its keep. The post A Nightingale in the Lion’s Den appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

      Dec 1, 2021

      To me, known and unknown Black historical figures aren’t dead and gone, but alive. These figures speak, they sing, and they give me wisdom. The post A Year in Reading: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Poet At Work

      Oct 11, 2017

      The Poet At Work
      15 min read

    • Article

      Literary Testimony: Fernando Aramburu Tells the Basque Story

      Apr 17, 2019

      When all is said and done, a novel is a means whereby we impose order on human experience, always leaving to the readers the possibility of reaching their own interpretations. The post Literary Testimony: Fernando Aramburu Tells the Basque Story appe

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Poet at Work

      Oct 11, 2017

      The Poet at Work
      16 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian

      Dec 8, 2019

      I spent a lot of time rereading the same books I used to sneak into my desk back in old days. We don’t need to feel apologetic about loving these books. The post A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 249

      Jun 8, 2021

      The Art of Fiction No. 249
      30 min read

    • Article

      Fiction is a Power Trip: The Millions Interviews Eleanor Henderson

      Sep 25, 2017

      "I think we have to acknowledge that fiction does have that dangerous allure. Is it presumptuous? Sure. It’s a sacred enterprise, it’s the best means of empathy and understanding we have, and it’s also presumptuous." The post Fiction is a Power Trip:

      10 min read

    • Article

      Dear White Publishers

      Aug 12, 2020

      Dear White Publishers
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Stephen Dodson

      Dec 1, 2017

      I wasn’t planning to make Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution my lead review as I was reading it; it seemed overlong and somewhat scattered.  But by the time I was done, I realized I had been badly mistaken: Slez

      4 min read

    • Article

      Tina Carlson

      Oct 11, 2017

      Age: Sixty-four. Residence: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Book:Ground, Wind, This Body (University of New Mexico Press, March), a poetry collection exploring the vestiges of war and redemption as a traumatized soldier returns home from WWII carrying a leg

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts - Ellen Wiles

      ]Nabook_preview_excerpt.html}ɒǵĒ0*kq0! ƥggfbb Lohmڬwm=k~IsuȬdʌ㯟~6NC~m~T|~ſ~;߿lY9寧kR~qW0W>j81/b;vxm} `UPhf }a bwBV2xꡤ:RGn'Q[XcYb{;˞b:{) |Z7Od/p0I2j#\ T¥X_ӱ⎬Ev&,˾݌ '[XSf %cq[_RKZ<OPgRJI|?@Î:Idb=kf]' 1*15kVy,8@9 jb7$t2=y}gb~5!8|2oMA ^ -` I7B[Y* Hƴoo6mﳧ[X.p&4yy0tu?j=F |adnLi.Xf򻡣CwuwISz{4c)nVl]sjH@mDY;FPڹ1Lifƈa$naS/weC~?seV}:B鄍[sՄkeI7fDT.V3b .{(+!Gۆ3] <=Q @)Cm᢯Î`\gy)t Nkss(ߖ~]*lnwlp8'ۃ6'$e|}0QK Hn SMlnqGS@ָ*0-I# g8I`Q$><Ц -bx%ۚl:w얌M=a5K1NQ"SD {y| ^}i) nnU1 xF8ۉ͊/ˮ0ˑ8C=G*ejx7-9wB~WXu::>xcm6,O:ZZrEEn\C׹ MJzW آE{a4)T^)<{٭v/!31Ɂ t0Iɛu`jIڴ pOjjׂ> DotM6Vi7? ?Z rWϥ)"w;c>}_lOɦ`$]C'+A/O>>\WCQ̸xyՀ:.!6,e27O2^hl;_ yp50S'+*nb焃p_⏁\<ÆpeՋ6 ׀-T{]_h~KwX2Pх DYvm$C:ZES0I l":j_K_$x?M'CZ7zl;5 #WN&Sׯy[hɾ J_q7ҳ{8kW2Jp7o, Be!ϡJйx(n _%'ڞ/6jFkF/W 35xtu Y%,臺j`nM+j!Xa넲 #QlSL+P>7BFJ ,0٬ Ofx*gߣ(CNu^X#E'EJ FqvƨO]@\EnSUOxRR@A@D{`H@h]CHTfô0x#3J?f<4T nSM.BxgP~ւ R7M~xDz-xQeKH=~[' tM&x^o2UhT,WL$aCFd!x.i·pbC ^:9܏ǃg{ GhO\12C턧2jaPlCt\gzO[yQ_IqyƒKz{ٝ! YD뚙Ciaz*~ցI /O9 F`k+EBԍcY|tϩ|9 `Հd㱶ʼn@np{70v[ lTxr{FM#q H_'l˹?W= PRkܞ>D۶05)/O;|\='CcuLЕfe3^Cjұ8{qɃg`eeu :#Vf]w,%:3X4NFܩ\QSO{"} ì0D/y?r'@'Iﭳd~D>G;.S/oV_Ou.&![mKГ>FsVe0d}T+Kpfy@~TO|^ʤ 4epv1p  Yu gCddFðqnW*>#9݅c17wZjnxHC ţᇻm! 7#&*lG Wyw)XlE3N{q LskG\2oɀ"{BAB+BkӥHO2ce|g#̵IiB}]מnKLit4 a@ZZ3#J" ztTz":\8VV1Q2.SPy81PcD l02l9X4@ё7i )=`n}q@u?x|P5~mf,OL`)"71#eb4C16 vYF,11ǁ9-Uu [Y %6Gρ1jm.~Msj[KY;9֊42%I{DJt}%b!ʅ3`vҊT՞tt$Q*NF*mm$՘p5޾DxZ}WqXJ d۹Nɨ?g`AfcIXwӽ,d)an,c&Yݝ,= h=KU89#fL9 :02*v;,@ b! IqnG8_J3b̈́"Pfr:R0G:o>,VZѼTkUoC^|U!¨qT|g`b2gHo{8;D'xIpW$פÍ{1²l ;B_x63<_R|XA:19!47='ϒyx9S'*ྒྷg׹*^ٯA?E%S2uXGU &\BZ _A%I zL%2?M,cB%bHQ$RdhdķpZMEt&zdDc{G)pN.%0]lej429J:]p\qyr3,cQ3Cg*"ڐ7~CKP=H{uDz\slIJI:s1GHa*%1*d^T#Z[s*j hW8r˲2-m>rOeeVӫӌb ;HYUc6BG;6#^^j7;njew[|QPߣb V %x.7a-r A}\^zAa,ǯ;mVtvdAPE&Y0'W61=V~T+0njƩWDew+̕X'eG f%ϕ߿߳θx_`- Ӌv)'YUtwp'4WxjnS9IB$\T8ăxB25xƻTs`8! h@9NRVt;]K,% )ݛךD1e' 딺RǤ\게MSuQ(θb|%qP%92)a/xIZ-=C{7kIBTGsЩ%՟z)ݠʛd8Ad51~_ncjaR>*Q̙o=JF ޹YDSOkLIEh[ C>5r}ҁayHw3|IN󽒐][V,gf"BF6:D&g 1zbwGlT{8028ֳh.hJ7O֋7vMF'+Cw;vh!(}'gX>TtQ=r8U@t\hk()zܒK]y:W[9c[ߋ6I bF--@&4.M_b 6f'PAŅCYx07u-+cs Ğ&{T%4% ІZnWAoG?=~{Թ1/q-2=3j̿UcS.{Y]d& ɣ[` GQ(m[^2kq@TW[p/Hag3։^X ?KO^~2 R^,TpY&TUZ|N65=.P&ld!* %5R:%5\$jK8q}c!ՕЭLs9w,H>9I]Qɒ9ԿףEcp(rh\^!u}F /9bV5,\M&8'k>˓ᚭE NȣtL7Lsf *5)F? :G_2|u"ϛ iR2% (fK ˍ%-JmXƮQc)ۨr,fwyx*MeyKl5VЩ!5NF U2}V(w>bAEq:QǭhCD7%y/7G~QW{زYhMv}Exuf_,"CTk+?6viYNI#,n4p [Ve5s']|rc+ ޾b$j`b `rZӵR"ww;$cMI0S7j$SΎ#f2.ؖ5 /glef8\˦+`. fɌSJZhmLQtjHçeJ {-fg. XUy J{U5m]z(YTho]=>,5Ӌqd5djF,^K{=z4I&Y(Xڟ<%CE=IoomԁKk5eF 6jw-ui6"}ܫy^'iN 3҉7ҶR91HJENiYǖ-gm,AxƨR +r6XvmvV..2HT5LS,>|awM*r5+w\A!Y/q:-HU@heF>T.Ù {#|ՁJoV=f] 6Єlcc&de'_4JŦXgMfR_Mj4ObMV'Vj\j\,38OE Iik"^}&(1dW'Ӝ`̫j=c_|S*CnXǘjEW9_!9e(=#c9ѕ頀!pA K(렕fb9y㡡M)Psr<-kLx[|Ülm SX⧣0-)wI {wUC(xY" 8g/-rq8S+BeRT9J{oU#9ףn9V*ޛ\A:(*YoVs6)`6PhɺwxhV# bNk tQl#CVAȵ]4V,yճ'YmkvK:dGM&4bVV/R9i,۝v0I=ʘ,ZI ,a^{Oe7XXRMBm&丢[6oiT4oj`n\A&U|= #^RVc d7̦u9^%i3k>Yn~ ٧Ut [.ZmfU`Jqk`deEhQߕW&cs+ao+!.Ox08drVr s6D5AZT1CY xl[=/&U[d"Ej6iRy=l MG\fgqi6pk%P")Ҷ%ˉA렯gIR_LNfLٗq6A",7ol[:I`<z (kK:t93cvķzrtU.z4DbT(/c.R 9!e5t0]Jq6$Sx# dxۄ1!ˌfmc*O]0ˈjr)r?aNlSy,^f?t3TL(Ցmtp=5cەu1ρwAjCΛ-jqO!U3yuR&эcSv[B;]kઇ"}=2l-#؃+f3y31wCc61kZm5]Cp`FK;HCwɸGiGBrFDcG~=[ŵ{_V *&^:T(b[ *n5{S\%|0메jjܯw5g/l@LlJnJ'R6,:4נ"kbyD,D4|4"lZ_zfl^6e7.Ur-:gG2K=u=*(j(}l6sRͦkYug=aawC-'zӪqE@FׇXZ#m 9QFwU;NPm5qY KP\I/f=e KqUUZbNcd#ÌՕtc]#G T\ϓTG_pz\[#]f\1!eM玣c/l,exo6?X^[~C~J1K߃I&;@;{aQ.{2*݃ɍǒb/.H(H5x+U_М7cxʧ{> *ڐ~_GNrݮH˅/:lZaS۴=7G?lz(2"7 (8m5 T9LyoU:4ɑ zB󝼌w^ʫؕC7J>&XH˩spOLQzWn˚{rnwdqp?aN,R-JL&LVW?ͬR=*RW~PM|WT&o(q&FĒMn6THt=uXψum`g!ZZ 9CUWSWrWGw٥8#`0pXHS[,d]:\ uY T.qs%͡K-gHo~u޳_u$Hv>nHv[|U2w.aVISur K*2lXW~ҵ/;|JĞ~fs7e'Q:T?oZ)n-ZM8ѭ}e!τD*I3­mݝSo2mV{fT;kP ER j/Dd8U6.64+{;h>եMsT .ɳp`QBЎ@ @)ڼQa6k_iH~˜ [Z|&G 4UӔƍ=;Վ-gMUc/3'BxßD|41/<8W?2C yxO뼷?*A_' Iz^OJ<-ͫϟXDZ,Z(]$)+6fd<_I^Jd\Z0oco,"3Fde~O+ZŁ'KNojPZ`=8r 1C+>emޤQTl;6`'QI.|G;# 9_pHrnRg+\?!0ч8h áʅTw6H jnzm8K mL=簾QL+2<NZ|QP#7ד~~;דּ5vb,{]w
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1