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Not Out of Hate : A Novel of Burma by Ma Ma Lay (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOhio University Press

ISBN-100896801675

ISBN-139780896801677

eBay Product ID (ePID)1027672

Product Key Features

Book TitleNot Out of Hate : a Novel of Burma

Number of Pages252 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAsian / General, General, Historical

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorMa Ma Lay

Book SeriesOhio Ris Southeast Asia Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-028553

Reviews"( Not Out of Hate ) is complemented well by Robert Vore's interesting afterword. Vore draws a number of parallels between Ma Ma Lay's novel and George Orwell's earlier Burmese Days , in which Orwell, stationed in lower Burma when Ma Ma Lay was growing up there, makes a number of similar observations about British colonial rule."-- Asian Studies Review, "Altogether this book is much more than the mere translation of a representative work: it reveals a too well hidden culture, its refinement and its depth."-- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume Number88

Dewey Decimal895/.833

SynopsisMa Ma Lay's 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma's foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPL3986.5.E5M3 1991