TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jabb,Lama
TI  - Oral and literary continuities in modern Tibetan literature: the inescapable nation 
T2  - Studies in modern Tibetan culture
SN  - 9781498503341
AV  - PL3705 
U1  - 895/.409 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Tibetan literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Littérature tibétaine
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Asian
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
KW  - Région autonome du Tibet (Chine)
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - China
KW  - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-270) and index; The persistence of the past in modern Tibetan literature -- Singing the nation: modern Tibetan music and national identity -- The Tibetan tradition of social criticism and modern Tibetan literature -- Narration of cultural traumas in modern Tibetan poetry and fiction -- The third generation of Tibetan poets and the inescapable nation -- How novel is contemporary Tibetan erotic poetry? -- Conclusion: whirlpools of continuity and creativity
N2  - "This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibet's oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach drawing on theoretical insights in Western literary theory and criticism, political studies, sociology, and anthropology, this book shows that the Tibetan nation's development is inextricably linked to modern Tibetan literature"--
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ER  -