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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change
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Edited by:
Lauran R. Hartley
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
The first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature.
Author / Editor information
Lauran R. Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. The translator of Six Stars with a Crooked Neck: Tibetan Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution, Hartley has a doctorate in Tibetan studies. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani is part-time Assistant Professor of Chinese at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She is President and Founder of the Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Tibetan publishing initiatives. Schiaffini-Vedani has a doctorate in Chinese language and literature, specializing in Sinophone Tibetan literature.
Reviews
“Despite the growing interest in contemporary Tibet, there have been few
publications in western languages of writings by contemporary Tibetans,
besides those written in Chinese by authors such as Tashi Dawa and Alai
who know little if any written Tibetan and have complex, difficult relations
with their Tibetan heritage. Hartley and Schiaffini-Vedani’s collection of
critical studies of modern Tibetan literature makes a major contribution to
correcting this imbalance. . . . [H]ere we have rich context and analysis of Tibetan voices and not just those favoured by publishers in Beijing or New York.” - Robert Barnett, Pacific Affairs
publications in western languages of writings by contemporary Tibetans,
besides those written in Chinese by authors such as Tashi Dawa and Alai
who know little if any written Tibetan and have complex, difficult relations
with their Tibetan heritage. Hartley and Schiaffini-Vedani’s collection of
critical studies of modern Tibetan literature makes a major contribution to
correcting this imbalance. . . . [H]ere we have rich context and analysis of Tibetan voices and not just those favoured by publishers in Beijing or New York.” - Robert Barnett, Pacific Affairs
“[T]his volume will be remembered as the book that legitimized Tibetan literature.” - Nathan W. Hill, China Review International
“I selected to read Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change with the desire for a deeper understanding of Tibetan culture, and I certainly received it. This collection is very approachable for such a scholarly work. Some of the language describing the writing of poetry was beautiful - true for any writer, in any language. I appreciated the introduction to writers who I probably would not have encountered on my own, and most of all, I gained a deeper understanding of what happens when a country is taken over, or shall I say ‘liberated’, by another. . . . This book is a rich resource, as the first comprehensive collection of its kind, for any scholarly inquiry into Tibetan literature.” - Jennifer M. Wilson, Feminist Review blog
“Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is a pioneering and engaging collection of articles by prominent Tibetan, French and American academics tracing the evolution of Tibetan literature over the past fifty years. Lean and perceptive articles cover a wide range of literary output...With the representations of ‘Tibetanness’ so hotly debated in China and the West, this collection gives a fascinating insight into the parallel debate raging within Tibetan literature itself.” - George Fitzherbert, Times Literary Supplement
“The work’s 14 chapters provide much-needed thematic reflections by Tibetan and non-Tibetan scholars into the subject matter and aesthetics of current Tibetan writing. . . . This important book is scholarly by amazingly readable; thus, it will find a multidisciplinary audience, including enthusiasts of Tibetan culture in general. An exceptional, invaluable acquisition. Essential. All readers, all levels.” - T. Carolan, CHOICE
“This project fills a long necessary gap not only in the study of Tibetan language and literature, but also in modern Tibetan cultural studies. It succeeds admirably in a task that is not attempted nearly often enough: of bringing Tibetan-related topics into meaningful dialogue with other areas and disciplines.” - Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, IIAS Newsletter
“Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change will instantly become the standard reference for future writing on Tibetan literature. The significance of that literature for Sino-Tibetan relations and for the fate of the Tibetan cultural world is only now being recognized. The list of contributors to this collection is a veritable ‘who’s who’ in the study of Tibetan literature.”—Janet Gyatso, author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
“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
“Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is a pioneering and engaging collection of articles by prominent Tibetan, French and American academics tracing the evolution of Tibetan literature over the past fifty years. Lean and perceptive articles cover a wide range of literary output...With the representations of ‘Tibetanness’ so hotly debated in China and the West, this collection gives a fascinating insight into the parallel debate raging within Tibetan literature itself.”
-- George Fitzherbert TLS
“[T]his volume will be remembered as the book that legitimized Tibetan literature.”
-- Nathan W. Hill China Review International
“Despite the growing interest in contemporary Tibet, there have been few publications in western languages of writings by contemporary Tibetans, besides those written in Chinese by authors such as Tashi Dawa and Alai who know little if any written Tibetan and have complex, difficult relations with their Tibetan heritage. Hartley and Schiaffini-Vedani’s collection of critical studies of modern Tibetan literature makes a major contribution to correcting this imbalance. . . . [H]ere we have rich context and analysis of Tibetan voices and not just those favoured by publishers in Beijing or New York.”
-- Robert Barnett Pacific Affairs
“I selected to read Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change with the desire for a deeper understanding of Tibetan culture, and I certainly received it. This collection is very approachable for such a scholarly work. Some of the language describing the writing of poetry was beautiful - true for any writer, in any language. I appreciated the introduction to writers who I probably would not have encountered on my own, and most of all, I gained a deeper understanding of what happens when a country is taken over, or shall I say ‘liberated’, by another. . . . This book is a rich resource, as the first comprehensive collection of its kind, for any scholarly inquiry into Tibetan literature.”
-- Jennifer M. Wilson Feminist Review blog
“This project fills a long necessary gap not only in the study of Tibetan language and literature, but also in modern Tibetan cultural studies. It succeeds admirably in a task that is not attempted nearly often enough: of bringing Tibetan-related topics into meaningful dialogue with other areas and disciplines.”
-- Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa IIAS Newsletter
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Note on Transliteration
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Introduction
xiii - Part One: Engaging Traditions
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Heterodox Views and the New Orthodox Poems: Tibetan Writers in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
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Roar of the Snow Lion: Tibetan Poetry in Chinese
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The Development of Modern Tibetan Literature in the People’s Republic of China in the 1980s
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Döndrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana
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“Heartbeat of a New Generation”: A Discussion of the New Poetry
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“Heartbeat of a New Generation” Revisited
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“Oracles and Demons” in Tibetan Literature Today: Representations of Religion in Tibetan-Medium Fiction
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One Nation, Two Discourses: Tibetan New Era Literature and the Language Debate
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The “Condor” Flies over Tibet: Zhaxi Dawa and the Significance of Tibetan Magical Realism
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In Quest(ion) of an “I”: Identity and Idiocy in Alai’s Red Poppies
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Development and Urban Space in Contemporary Tibetan Literature
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Modern Tibetan Literature and the Rise of Writer Coteries
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Tibetan Literature in the Diaspora
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Placing Tibetan Fiction in a World of Literary Studies: Jamyang Norbu’s The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
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Appendix 1: Glossary of Tibetan Spellings
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Appendix 2: Glossary of Chinese Terms
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Appendix 3: Contemporary Tibetan Literary Works in Translation
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Bibliography
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About the Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 16, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9780822381433
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
424
Other:
31 illustrations, 2 maps
