Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage (eBook)

Negotiating Dispossession

Shelly Bhoil, Enrique Galvan-Alvarez (Herausgeber)

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2018
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5239-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focusing on developments taking place in Tibet and the diaspora, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues at the heart of Tibetan modernity. From the political dynamics of the exiled community in India to the production of contemporary Tibetan literature in the PRC, the collection delves into various aspects of current significance for the Tibetan community worldwide such as the construction of Bon identity in exile, the strategic use of the discourse of development or the issue of cultural and linguistic purity in an increasingly hybrid and globalized world. Moving away from the preservationist paradigm that regards Tibetan culture as an endangered and precious object, the essays in this book portray Tibetan identities in motion, as lived subjectivities that travel, change and creatively reimagine themselves on various global stages. Even if recent Tibetan history is marked by imposed transitions and a sense of dispossession, this collection highlights the ways Tibetans have not only managed traumatic historical events but also become agents of change and reinventors of their own traditions.

Autor

Shelly Bhoil is writer and research scholar and has previously taught at Delhi University and Amity University. Enrique Galvan-Alvarez is associate professor at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja-UNIR.

Inhalt

Introduction Thierry DodinPart I: Strategies of Identity in Motion1. Zhangzhung, Bön, and China: The Construction of an Alternative Tibetan Historical Narrative Per Kværne2. Narratives of Becoming: Tibet-born Tibetans in DiasporaJulia Meredith Hess3. Click Here for Enlightenment: On Tibet, Hollywood, Virtual Communities, Cyberspace Discourse, and Other Matters of Representational Practice Frank J. Korom4. The Words of the Developees: Study of the Discourse of the Tibetan RefugeesThomas KauffmannPart II: Reclaiming Dispossession through Writing5. Acting and Speaking through Modern Tibetan PoetryLama Jabb6. A Tibetan Heart in a Chinese Mouth: Tsering Woeser's Notes on TibetKamila Hladíková7. Inner Emigration and Concealed Writing: Folk Literary Elements in Contemporary Fiction from TibetFranz Xaver ErhardPart III: The Political Cultures of Exile8. The Last Gift of the God-King: Narrating the Dalai Lama’s ResignationMartin A. Mills9. Exile Tibetans and the Dance of DemocracyJigme Yeshe Lama10. Who is a Pure Tibetan?: Identity, Intergenerational History, and Trauma in ExileDawa T. Lokyitsang11. Annual Commemorations and Celebrations: Negotiations of Identities in the Bonpo Settlement in DolanjiYu-Shan Liu

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
• Co-Autor: Yu-Shan Liu, Dawa T. Lokyitsang, Martin A. Mills, Franz Xaver Erhard, Boston University Frank J. Korom, Julia Meredith Hess, Kamila Hladikova, Lama Jabb, Thomas Kauffmann, Per Kvaerne, Jigme Yeshe Lama
• Einführung: Thierry Dodin
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Bon identity • China • communism • Cultural Change • Hybridity • Identity strategies • Modern Tibetan Literature • Political culture • PRC • Reclaiming dispossession • Tibet • Tibetan Diaspora • Tibetan exile • Tibetan subjectivities
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5239-0 / 1498552390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5239-4 / 9781498552394