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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819772003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-5239-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)

Collana

Studies in modern Tibetan culture

Disciplina

951/.505

Soggetti

Tibetans

Buddhism

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.