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Contents; Foreword ; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part One: Engaging Traditions; 1. Heterodox Views and the New Orthodox Poems: Tibetan Writers inthe Early and Mid-Twentieth Century; 2. Roar of the Snow Lion: Tibetan Poetry in Chinese; 3. The Development of Modern Tibetan Literature in the People's Republic of China in the 1980s; 4. Döndrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana; 5. "Heartbeat of a New Generation": A Discussion of the New Poetry; 6. "Heartbeat of a New Generation" Revisited
7. "Oracles and Demons" in Tibetan Literature Today: Representationsof Religion in Tibetan-Medium FictionPart Two: Negotiating Modernities; 8. One Nation, Two Discourses: Tibetan New Era Literature and the Language Debate; 9. The "Condor" Flies over Tibet: Zhaxi Dawa and the Significance of Tibetan Magical Realism; 10. In Quest(ion) of an "I": Identity and Idiocy in Alai's Red Poppies; 11. Development and Urban Space in Contemporary Tibetan Literature; 12. Modern Tibetan Literature and the Rise of Writer Coteries; 13. Tibetan Literature in the Diaspora
14. Placing Tibetan Fiction in a World of Literary Studies: Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock HolmesAppendix 1: Glossary of Tibetan Spellings; Appendix 2: Glossary of Chinese Terms; Appendix 3: Contemporary Tibetan Literary Works in Translation; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index