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By Lauran R. Hartley,Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani

ISBN-10: 0822342545

ISBN-13: 9780822342540

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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the 1st systematic and targeted review of recent Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned purely within the final thirty years. This finished assortment brings jointly fourteen pioneering students within the nascent box of Tibetan literary reports, together with authors who're energetic within the Tibetan literary international itself. those students study the literary output of Tibetan authors writing in Tibetan, chinese language, and English, either in Tibet and within the Tibetan diaspora.

The participants discover the situations that resulted in the improvement of recent Tibetan literature, its continuities and breaks with classical Tibetan literary types, and the ways in which writers use types corresponding to magical realism, satire, and humor to barter literary freedom in the People’s Republic of China. they supply the most important information regarding Tibetan writers’ lives in China and in another country, the social and political contexts during which they write, and the literary advantages in their oeuvre. besides deep social, cultural, and political research, this wealth of knowledge clarifies the advanced conditions that Tibetan writers face within the PRC and the diaspora. The members contemplate not just poetry, brief tales, and novels but additionally different kinds of cultural production—such as literary magazines, movies, and internet sites—that supply a public discussion board within the Tibetan parts of the PRC, the place censorship and regulations on public gatherings stay the norm. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change encompasses a formerly unavailable checklist of contemporary Tibetan works translated into Western languages and a complete English-language index of names, topics, and terms.

Contributors: Pema Bhum, Howard Y. F. Choy, Yangdon Dhondup, Lauran R. Hartley, Hortsang Jigme, Matthew T. Kapstein, Nancy G. Lin, Lara Maconi, Françoise Robin, Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, Ronald D. Schwartz, Tsering Shakya, Sangye Gyatso (aka Gangzhün), Steven J. Venturino,
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