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Author | : Guy Delisle |
Publisher | : Drawn & Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 177046574X |
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"From the author of Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, is Burma Chronicles, an informative look at a country that uses concealment and isolation as social control. It is drawn with Guy Delisle's minimal line while interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of his distinctive slapstick humor. Burma Chronicles has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal."
Author | : Guy Delisle |
Publisher | : Drawn & Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1770461876 |
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Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle skillfully notes the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, while also conveying his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues in the Communist state. Shenzhen has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.
Author | : Guy Delisle |
Publisher | : Drawn & Quarterly |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2022-08-03 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1770466703 |
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For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall
Author | : Prince Damrongrāchānuphāp (son of Mongkut, King of Siam) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : |
Download The Chronicle of Our Wars with the Burmese Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Burma Research Society. Text Publication Fund |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Emma Larkin |
Publisher | : Portobello Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : 9781847084026 |
Download Finding George Orwell in Burma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A brilliant political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell and Orwell to explain what life is really like under the authoritarian rule of the Burmese generals.
Author | : Won-loy Chan |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Deftly-written, candid, and often-amusing [story] of action, [throwing] much new light on...the Allies' toughest theater.--Springfield Newspapers
Author | : Guy Delisle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9781911214441 |
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HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST? In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andre was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts Andre's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation. Marking a departure from the author's celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted colour washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.
Author | : Alexandra Schultheis Moore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317507304 |
Download Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on theories of vulnerability, precarity, and dispossession to argue for the necessity of recognizing the embodied and material contexts of human rights subjects. At the same time, she demonstrates how these theories run the risk of reproducing the structural imbalances that lie at the core of critiques of human rights. Pairing conventional human rights genres—legal instruments, human rights reports, reportage, and humanitarian campaigns—with literary and visual culture, Moore develops a transnational feminist reading praxis of five sites of rights and their violation over the past fifty years: UN human rights instruments and child soldiers in Nigerian literature; human rights reporting and novels that address state-sponsored ethnocide in Zimbabwe; the international humanitarian campaigns and disaster capitalism in fiction of Bhopal, India; the work of Médecins Sans Frontières in the Sahel, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma as represented in various media campaigns and in photo/graphic narratives; and, finally, the human rights campaigns, fiction, and film that have brought Indonesia’s history of anti-leftist violence into contemporary public debate. These case studies underscore how human rights norms are always subject to conditions of imaginative representation, and how literature and visual culture participate in that cultural imaginary. Expanding feminist theories of embodied and imposed vulnerability, Moore demonstrates the importance of situating human rights violations not only in the context of neo-liberal development policies but also in relation to the growth of security networks that serve the nation-state often at the expense of the security of specific subjects and populations. In place of conventional victims and agents, the intersection of vulnerability and human rights opens up readings of human rights claims and suffering that are, at once, embodied and shareable, yet which run the risk of cooptation by security rhetoric.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : |
Download The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the year 1829 King Bagyidaw of Burma appointed a committee of scholars to write a chronicle of the Burmese kings. The name of the chronicle was taken from the Palace of glass, in which the compilation was made. The present translation is based on the Mandalay edition of 1907. It begins with the third part which opens with history of the three Burmese kingdoms of Tagaung, Tharehkittara, and Pagan. The fourth and fifth parts continue the history of Pagan until the time of its fail.