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oapen-20.500.12657-564332022-06-02T03:27:09Z Chapter Negotiating with the tradition: representations of fish in Alai’s fictional writing De Grandis, Mario costantini, filippo Chinese ethnic minority literature Alai disgust studies 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's cultural specificity, which in virtue of its exoticism can catch the attention of non-Tibetan readers. At the same time, however, Alai equips his characters with psychological depth, showing their contrasting inner emotions of attraction and repulsion toward fish. In this sense, Alai subtly points at the fallacies of flat representations of Tibet, thus dismantling them from within. 2022-06-01T12:24:07Z 2022-06-01T12:24:07Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855185066_618 2704-5919 9788855185066 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56433 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 29722.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-506-6_10 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.11 10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.11 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855185066 233 15 Florence open access
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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's cultural specificity, which in virtue of its exoticism can catch the attention of non-Tibetan readers. At the same time, however, Alai equips his characters with psychological depth, showing their contrasting inner emotions of attraction and repulsion toward fish. In this sense, Alai subtly points at the fallacies of flat representations of Tibet, thus dismantling them from within.
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