Chapter Negotiating with the tradition: representations of fish in Alai's fictional writing
Tibet has long been orientalized in fictional representations. Taking as a case study two texts by Alai, this paper investigates how a traditional Tibetan cultural trait-the fish taboo-is mobilized to complicate the representation of Tibetan culture. By describing the fish taboo Alai points at Tibet...
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Florence
Firenze University Press
2021
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| Series: | Studi e saggi
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