Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Publisher’s Description: These essential readings in the emerging field of Tibetan literary studies offer specialists and non-specialists provocative new studies of contemporary Tibetan literature and criticism, ranging from discussions of individual works to theoretical interventions. The nature of Tibetan literature as both a regional voice within China and a transnational voice in the world is explored by L. Hartley on the relationship between the terms rtsom-rig, wen, and literature, F. Robin on historical fiction, L. Maconi on literature in the Yunnan Tibetan areas, T. Dhondup on Mongolian-Tibetan writers, J. Drakpa on poetic explication, P. Schiaffini on the creation of Tibetan subjectivities, F.X. Erhard on magical realism, and Gray Tuttle’s interview with writer and critic Pema Bhum.

Table of Contents: Introduction: Approaching Contemporary Tibetan Literature / Steven J. Venturino -- Ascendancy of the Term Rtsom-rig in Tibetan Literary Discourse / Lauran Hartley -- Stories and History: the Emergence of Historical Fiction in Contemporary Tibet / Françoise Robin -- Contemporary Tibetan Literature from Shangri-la: Literary Life and Activities in Yunnan Tibetan Areas, 1950-2002 / Lara Maconi -- Three Contemporary Mongolian-Tibetan Writers / Tsering Dhondup -- An Analysis of the Poem “Young Dondrup the Courier” / Jamyang Drakpa -- Changing Identities: The Creation of ‘Tibetan’ Literary Voices in the PRC / Patricia Schiaffini -- Magical Realism and Tibetan Literature / Franz Xaver Erhard -- Interview with Pema Bhum: Tibetan Literature and the Latse Tibetan Library / Gray Tuttle -- Contributors.