Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change

by Hartley, Lauran R.; Schiaffini-vedani, Patricia; Kapstein, Matthew T.

• ISBN13: 9780822342540
• ISBN10: 0822342545
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This book is a milestone. It is the first to bring together the complex variety of ingredients that have nurtured modern Tibetan literature. It considers several literary genres, written in three languages (Tibetan, Chinese, and English), and gives sensitive attention both to Tibetan literary tradition and to the turmoil of modern politics and social change."--Perry Link, author of "The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System"

Table of Contents

Foreword

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Engaging Traditions

Heterodox Views and the New Orthodox Poems: Tibetan Writers in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

Roar of the Snow Lion: Tibetan Poetry in Chinese

The Development of Modern Tibetan Literature in the People's Republic of China in the 1980s

Dondrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana

"Heartbeat of a New Generation": A Discussion of the New Poetry

"Heartbeat of a New Generation" Revisited

"Oracles and Demons" in Tibetan Literature Today: Representations of Religion in Tibetan-Medium Fiction

One Nation, Two Discourses: Tibetan New Era Literature and the Language Debate

The "Condor" Flies over Tibet: Zhaxi Dawa and the Significance of Tibetan Magical Realism

In Quest(ion) of an "I": Identity and Idiocy in Alai's Red Poppies

Development and Urban Space in Contemporary Tibetan Literature

Modern Tibetan Literature and the Rise of Writer Coteries

Tibetan Literature in the Diaspora

Placing Tibetan Fiction in a World of Literary Studies: Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Glossary of Tibetan Spellings

Glossary of Chinese Terms

Contemporary Tibetan Literary Works in Translation

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

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