Tuesday, August 05, 2008

News at Eleven: Some Burmese intellectuals consider much

of the country's post-modern literature "gibberish" because the prose lacks plot and the poetry is nonspecific, resembling a "word salad." But the specialist described the new Burmese literature as "one of the more extreme responses to censorship," because it allows a writer under investigation to claim the work has no real meaning. "It's kind of their way of bypassing the censorship system and then sort of communicating in some way."

from News Blaze: Burmese Writers Play Cat-and-Mouse Game with State Censors

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