Rewriting Shangri-La : Tibetan youth, migrations and literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / / by Heidi Swank
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| Autore: |
Swank Heidi
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| Titolo: |
Rewriting Shangri-La : Tibetan youth, migrations and literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / / by Heidi Swank
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.800951/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tibetans - India - Mcleodganj |
| Youth - India - Mcleodganj | |
| Immigrant youth - India - Mcleodganj | |
| Youths' writings - Social aspects | |
| Written communication - Social aspects | |
| Group identity - Tibet Region | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mcleodganj (India) Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
| Tibet Region Civilization | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rewriting Shangri-La |
| ISBN: | 90-04-26390-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791324203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; ; v. 34.