LAND, BODY, AND MEMORY: AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF TSERING YANGZOM LAMA’S WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES.

Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan exiled writer based in Vancouver, Canada. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is her debut novel published in 2022. As a real Tibetan refugee, her novel primarily focused on the actual displacement of her community from Tibet, when China invaded their country in the 1950s. The narrative in centred on the lives of four inter-generational women grappling with personal trauma and collective memory. The novel addresses the themes of displacement, survival, loss of identity and spirituality. These themes profoundly resonate with ecofeminism. Thus, this paper is an attempt to explore how Lama uses the female body and the natural and spiritual landscape of Tibet as symbols of resistance, endurance, and resilience through the experiences of her female characters.