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Abstract
This essay examines the tension between minzu (roughly an equivalent of “ethnic” and “national”) and world literature by investigating Tibetan-Chinese writer Alai’s Gesar and his other writings. For Alai, the tension between minzu and world literature is a moot question. He challenges many assumptions of both minzu and world literature through his metafictional rewriting of Gesar and alerts us to the power of differentiation. Alai’s unique views urge us to reflect on the politics of a non-Western ethnic writer writing in, to, and for the world.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Comparative Literature and China : Methods and Perspectives |
| Editors | Longzi ZHANG, Sheldon LU |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 226-243 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004750913 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789004750906 |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 Jan 2026 |
Publication series
| Name | Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature |
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| Publisher | Brill |
| Volume | 111 |
Funding
The research of this essay is funded by the General Research Fund (LU 13601423) of the Hong Kong SAR government.
Keywords
- Alai
- ethnicity
- national literature
- world literature
- The Song of King Gesar
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Reinstalling Nature: Ecocriticism and Minzu in Chinese Fiction from the 1980s (重申自然：1980年代以來中國小說中的生態批評與民族)
GONG, H. (PI)
Research Grants Council (Hong Kong, China)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research
Research output
- 1 Journal Article (refereed)
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A Re-deliberation of Minzu Literature and World Literature : The Literary World in Alai’s Writing
GONG, H., 2024, In: Journal of World Literature. 9, 2, p. 297-315 19 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review