Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change

Herausgeber: Hartley, Lauran R

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the nascent field of Tibetan literary studies, including authors who are active in the Tibetan literary world itself. These scholars examine the literary output of Tibetan authors writing in Tibetan, Chinese, and English, both in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora. The contributors explore the circumstances that led to the development of modern Tibetan literature, its continuities and breaks with classical Tibetan literary forms, and the ways that writers use forms such as magical realism, satire, and humor to negotiate literary freedom within the PRC. They provide crucial information about Tibetan writers' lives in China and abroad, the social and political contexts in which they write, and the literary-critical merits of their oeuvres. Along with deep social, cultural, and political analysis, this wealth of information clarifies the complex circumstances under which Tibetan writers negotiate the realities they face in the PRC and in the diaspora. The contributors consider not only poetry, short stories, and novels but also other forms of cultural production-such as literary magazines, films, and Web sites-that provide a public forum in the Tibetan areas of the PRC, where censorship and restrictions on public gatherings remain the norm. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change includes a previously unavailable list of modern Tibetan works translated into Western languages and a comprehensive English-language index of names, subjects, and terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342779
• ISBN-10: 0822342774
• Artikelnr.: 23370331

Autorenporträt

Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Matthew K. Kapstein vii
Note on Transliteration xi
Introduction / Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani xiii
Part One: Engaging Traditions
1. Heterodox Views and the New Orthodox Poems: Tibetan Writers in the Early
and Mid-Twentieth Century / Lauran R. Hartley 3
2. Roar of the Snow Lion: Tibetan Poetry in Chinese / Yangdon Dhondup 32
3. The Development of Modern Tibetan Literature in the People's Republic of
China in the 1980s / Tsering Shakya 61
4. Dondrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana / Nancy G. Lin 86
5. "Heartbeat of a New Generation": A Discussion of the New Poetry / Pema
Bhum 112
6. "Heartbeat of a New Generation" Revisited / Pema Bhum 135
7. "Oracles and Demons" in Tibetan Literature Today: Representations of
Religion in Tibetan-Medium Fiction / Francoise Robin 148
8. One Nation, Two Discourses: Tibetan New Era Literature and the Language
Debate / Lara maconi 173
9. The "Condor" Flies over Tibet: Zhaxi Dawa and the Significance of
Tibetan Magical Realism / Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani 202
10. In Quest(ion) of an "I": Identity and Idiocy in Alai's Red Poppies /
Howard Y. F. Choy 225
11. Development and Urban Space in Contemporary Tibetan Literature / Riika
J. Virtanen 236
12. Modern Tibetan Literature and the Rise of Writer Coteries / Sangye
Gyatso (Gangzhun) 263
13. Tibetan Literature in the Diaspora / Hortsang Jigme 281
14. Placing Tibetan Fiction in a World of Literary Studies: Jamyang Norbu's
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes / Steven J. Venturino 301
Appendix 1: Glossary of Tibetan Spellings 327
Appendix 2: Glossary of Chinese Terms 338
Appendix 3: Contemporary Tibetan Literary Works in Translation 340
Bibliography 345
About the Contributors 369
Index 373