Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature
Subtitle: The Inescapable Nation
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781498503334
Subjects: Tibetan literature; Identity (psychology); Tibet autonomous region (china), civilization
Description: "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" --