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9780367694036: The Selfless Ego: Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing
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ISBN 10: 0367694034 ISBN 13: 9780367694036
Editorial: Routledge, 2023

Sinopsis

The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation, this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity construction, eluding the strictures imposed by the adoption of the hagiographical master narrative as synonymous with the genre.

The book is divided into two parts. Ideally conceived as an 'introduction' to traditional forms of life writing as expressed in Buddhist milieus, Part I. Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing centres on the inner tensions between literary convention and self-expression that permeate indigenous hagiographies, mystical songs, records of teachings, and autobiographies. Part II: Conjuring Tibetan Lives explores the most unconventional traits of the genre, sifting through the narrative configuration of Tibetan biographical writings as 'liberation stories' to unearth those fragments of life that compose an individual’s multifaceted existence.

This volume is the first to approach Tibetan life writing from a literary and narratological perspective, encompassing a wide range of disciplines, themes, media, and historical periods, and thus opening new and vibrant areas of research to future scholarship across the Humanities.

The chapters in this book were originally published as two special issues of Life Writing.

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Acerca del autor

Lucia Galli is Research Fellow at the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO, Paris, France) and a member of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE – PSL), where she is currently working within the framework of the ANR/DFG-funded research project Social Status in the Tibetan World (TibStat). She holds a D.Phil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford, UK, with a thesis on the nyindep (nyin deb, ‘diary’) of the Khampa trader Khatag Dzamyag (Kha stag ʼDzam yag).

Franz Xaver Erhard is researcher at Leipzig University, Germany. He holds a PhD in Tibetan Studies with a dissertation on contemporary Tibetan literature and has published widely on Tibetan fiction and the history of Tibetan print media. His current research project focuses on ‘Secular Life Writing in Early Modern Tibet’ with a study of Kalon Tenzin Paljor’s Autobiography Music of Candid Speech.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0367694034
ISBN 13 
9780367694036
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
284
Editor
Galli Lucia, Erhard Franz Xaver
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