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Tibetan subjectivities on the global stage : negotiating dispossession / edited by Shelly Bhoil and Enrique Galvan-Alvarez

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Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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1 online resource
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Bhoil, Shelly and Galvan-Alvarez, Enrique
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Contents
Strategies of identity in motion -- Zhangzhung, Bön, and China : the construction of an alternative Tibetan historical narrative / Per Kværne -- Narratives of becoming : Tibet-born Tibetans in diaspora / Julia Meredith Hess -- Click here for enlightenment : on Tibet, Hollywood, virtual communities, cyberspace discourse, and other matters of representational practice / Frank J. Korom -- The words of the developees : study of the discourse of the Tibetan refugees / Thomas Kauffmann -- Reclaiming dispossession through writing -- Acting and speaking through modern Tibetan poetry / Lama Jabb -- A Tibetan heart in a chinese mouth : Tsering Woeser's notes on Tibet / Kamila Hladíková -- Inner emigration and concealed writing : folk literary elements in contemporary fiction from Tibet / Franz Xaver Erhard -- The political cultures of exile -- The last gift of the God-king : narrating the Dalai Lama's resignation / Martin A. Mills -- Exile Tibetans and the dance of democracy / Jigme Yeshe Lama -- Who is a pure Tibetan? : identity, intergenerational history, and trauma in exile / Dawa T. Lokyitsang -- Annual commemorations and celebrations: negotiations of identities in the Bonpo settlement in Dolanji / Yu-Shan Liu -- About the editors -- About the contributors.
Summary
Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, literature, and development. By drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, the book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.
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9781498552394 electronic book
1498552390 electronic book
9781498552387 hardcover alkaline paper
1498552382
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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