Oral and literary continuities in modern Tibetan literature : the inescapable nation
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Oral and literary continuities in modern Tibetan literature : the inescapable nation
(Studies in modern Tibetan culture)
Lexington Books, c2015
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-270) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of "birth" and presents this period as marking a "rupture" with traditional forms of literature, this book goes beyond such an interpretation by foregrounding instead the persistence of Tibet's artistic past and oral traditions in the literary creativity of the present. While acknowledging the innovative features of modern Tibetan literary creation, it draws attention to the hitherto neglected aspects of continuity within the new. This study explores the endurance of genres, styles, concepts, techniques, symbolisms, and idioms derived from Tibet's rich and diverse oral art forms and textual traditions. It reveals how Tibetan kavya poetics, the mgur genre, life-writing, the Gesar epic and other modes of oral and literary compositions are referenced and adapted in novel ways within modern Tibetan poetry and fiction. It also brings to prominence the complex and fertile interplay between orality and the Tibetan literary text. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach drawing on theoretical insights in western literary theory and criticism, political studies, sociology, and anthropology, this research shows that, alongside literary and oral continuities, the Tibetan nation proves to be an inevitable attribute of modern Tibetan literature.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Persistence of the Past in Modern Tibetan Literature
Chapter 2: Singing the Nation: Modern Tibetan Music and National Identity
Chapter 3: The Tibetan Tradition of Social Criticism and Modern Tibetan Literature
Chapter 4: Narration of Cultural Traumas in Modern Tibetan Poetry and Fiction
Chapter 5: The Third Generation of Tibetan Poets and the Inescapable Nation
Chapter 6: How Novel Is Contemporary Tibetan Erotic Poetry?
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Whirlpools of Continuity and Creativity
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