Shaffer Yamada, Teri
(edt.), Virtual lotus: modern fiction of
Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2002.
It was edited by Professor
Yamada. With this book, she won award of Choice Outstanding Academic Title in
2002. Her book Virtual Lotus has also received several
outstanding reviews. This was collections of the well-known short stories of
writers through Southeast Asia during the 20th century. It can be
called as anthology.
There were many short
stories in it including "Thadun," of Ne Win Myint, "Clean, Clear
Water," of U Win Pe, "An Umbrella," of Ma Sandar, and "An
Unanswerable Question" of Daw Ohn Khin in Burma.
It provides a outline of
the Southeast Asian each country's literary history including snapshots of
cultures at a specific historical moment and the telling the interaction
between individual writers and their socio-political situations. Many of the
stories are ethnographic and provide. Reflect gender balance, diversity of
style, and quality of literary expression can be read. It includes
bibliographical references. It will be suitable for the Adults.
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