Not Out of Hate: A Novel of Burma (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series) - Tapa blanda

Lay, Ma Ma

 
9780896801677: Not Out of Hate: A Novel of Burma (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series)
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ISBN 10: 0896801675 ISBN 13: 9780896801677
Editorial: Ohio University Press, 2019

Sinopsis

Not Out of Hate―published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939–42―was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices for change. A journalist by trade, Lay applied her straightforward observational style with compassion and purpose to the story of Way Way, a teenage village girl whose quiet life assisting her father in his rice-brokerage business is disrupted by the arrival of U Saw Han, the cosmopolitan Burmese rice trader twenty years her senior. When she first encounters him, Way Way is entranced by his Western furnishings, servants, and mannerisms. The two marry, but before long, it becomes clear that U Saw Han's love is a stifling one that seeks to obliterate her traditional ways.
Not Out of Hate was enormously popular in Burma and went through several editions in the 1950s and 1960s. When Ohio University Press published its English translation, in 1991, it became the first significant fictional account of prewar Burma available in English since George Orwell's Burmese Days, and provided a Burmese counterpoint to Orwell's novel. Translated into English here for the first time, the novel is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance.

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Ma Ma Lay (1917–1982) was twentieth-century Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change. A journalist and unflagging advocate for the equal participation of women in intellectual and political life, she worked tirelessly and at personal expense to combat injustice, government corruption, and hypocrisy. Her many novels and stories were known for engagingly depicting the lives of everyday Burmese, which played out in her lasting popularity with the reading public.

Anna Allott holds the title Senior Research Associate in Burmese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published widely on Burmese literature and grammar.

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Editorial
Ohio University Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0896801675
ISBN 13 
9780896801677
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
252
Editor
Frederick William H.
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