Chroniques birmanes

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After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle is back with Burma Chronicles. In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control-where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the leader of the opposition has spent twelve of the past eighteen years under house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumor is the most reliable source of current information-he turns his gaze to the everyday for a sense of the big picture. Delisle's deft and recognizable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power outages, and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and iron-handed rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and nongovernmental organizations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. Burma Chronicles is drawn with a minimal line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humor.

subjects: Politics and government,  Description and travel,  Cartoonists,  Fiction,  Social conditions,  Comic books, strips,  Travel,  Biography,  Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general,  Burma, description and travel,  Burma, politics and government,  Canada, biography,  Asia, social conditions,  Asia, civilization,  Comics & graphic novels, general,  Bandes dessinées,  Politique et gouvernement,  Conditions sociales,  Voyages,  Descriptions et voyages

People: Guy Delisle (1966-)

Places: Burma,  Canada

Times: 1988-