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| Flowers and Dreams: Literary Realism and Renunciation in a Lhasa Nightclub | ||
| 作者 | Burke, Erin (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities |
| 卷期 | v.3 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2023 |
| 出版者 | Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative |
| 出版者網址 | https://talitibet.org/ |
| 出版地 | Austin, TX, US [奧斯汀, 德克薩斯州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: University of Virginia, USA. |
| 關鍵詞 | Tsering Yangkyi; women; Lhasa; Buddhism; impermanence |
| 摘要 | Tsering Yangkyi (tshe ring dbyangs skyid) is a well-known contemporary writer living in Lhasa who has been publishing short stories and novellas since the 1980s. Like some of her other writing, her novel Me tog dang rmi lam (Flowers and Dreams), takes up contemporary issues of women’s lives in Tibet, including education opportunities and health care, but goes further into the dangers vulnerable women face when they do not have those opportunities. This article examines the religious themes and images in the novel that follows four women’s paths from village life to a difficult existence in Lhasa working as hostesses at a night club. Whereas the novel is written in a realist style with respect to the dialogue and depictions of the characters’ environment, extended metaphors for impermanence and no-self as well as the form of narration evoke elements of a Buddhist worldview. I argue that a formative reading of the novel, as theorized by Joshua Landy, suggests that these literary aspects of the work train the reader to see the world as Tibetan Buddhist preliminary exercises do (i.e., as impermanent and rife with suffering), while also foregrounding the very aspects of cyclic existence that make that worldview so difficult to cultivate. |
| 目次 | Abstract Keywords How Should We Read Modern Tibetan Stories? A Non-Linear Narrative Structure Extended Metaphors When Is a Story “Buddhist”? A Twist on a Classic Narrative Conclusion Works Cited |
| ISSN | 27684261 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 58 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.06.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.06.27 |
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