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THE COLONIAL LITERATURE OF MYANMAR
The British author George Orwell, who was severely critical of the Burmese, wrote Burmese Days published in 1935.
When Burma became a colony of British India, Burmese literature continued to flourish. English literature was still relatively inaccessible although both English and Burmese were now taught in schools. Despite the fact that Burmese literature was well entrenched in Burmese culture, the lack of patrons to support literature did slow its further development.
Beginning in the 1920s, a nationalist movement emerged, and this influence became evident in modern novels, short stories, and poems. At the University of Rangoon, student writers continued to develop new forms of Burmese poetry. A major landmark in Burmese literature was called the Hkit san (Testing the Age) movement, a search for a new style and content, led most notably by Theippan Maung Wa along with Nwe Soe, Zawgyi, Min Thu Wun and Mya Kaytu, while still at university and after, in the decade before the Second World War. The movement for independence continued to fuel Burmese literature.Thakin Kodaw Hmaing was greatly influential in spawning this anti-colonial literature with his powerful leigyo gyi and htika verses famous for their patriotic and satirical content.
Theippan Maung Wa, Hmawbi Saya Thein, and Thein Pei Myint were quite original and innovative authors from the colonial period.
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