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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453420003321

Autore

Swank Heidi

Titolo

Rewriting Shangri-La : Tibetan youth, migrations and literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / / by Heidi Swank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26390-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, , 1568-6183 ; ; Volume 34

Disciplina

305.800951/5

Soggetti

Tibetans - India - Mcleodganj

Youth - India - Mcleodganj

Immigrant youth - India - Mcleodganj

Youths' writings - Social aspects

Written communication - Social aspects

Group identity - Tibet Region

Electronic books.

Mcleodganj (India) Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Tibet Region Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 ‘Just Let Go of this Dream of Shangri-La’ -- 2 Youth Communities and Methodologies -- 3 Theories of and in Practice -- 4 ‘Come to Learn, Go to Serve’ -- 5 Learning to Serve and to Roam -- 6 Writing Divisions -- 7 Families In Exile and Across the Himalayas -- 8 ‘Friends Like You Are Really Oscar Winner’ -- 9 Rewriting Shangri-La -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Rewriting Shangri-La: Migrations and Everyday Literacies among Tibetan Youth in McLeod Ganj, India , Heidi Swank examines differing histories of migration and exile through the lens of everyday literacies. The youth on whom this ethnography focuses live in a community that has long been romanticized by Tibetans and non-Tibetans alike, positioning these youth to see themselves as keepers of a modern day Shangri-la. Through this ethnography - based on a decade of research



- Heidi Swank suggests that through seemingly mundane writings (grocery lists, text messages, et cetera) these youth are shifting what Shangri-la means by renogotiating important aspects of life in this Tibetan community to better match their lived - not romanticized - experiences as exiles in rural India.