Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage

Negotiating Dispossession

Shelly Bhoil, Enrique Galvan-Alvarez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5238-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage provides a comprehensive account of the ways Tibetans are reimagining their sense of belonging in the realms of politics, religion, and development. Drawing on sources and examples from Tibet and its diaspora, this book offers an image of Tibetan identity as a multifaceted, living, and changing entity.

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.

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.

Introduction
Thierry Dodin

Part I: Strategies of Identity in Motion

1. Zhangzhung, Bön, and China: The Construction of an Alternative Tibetan Historical Narrative
Per Kværne
2. Narratives of Becoming: Tibet-born Tibetans in Diaspora
Julia Meredith Hess
3. Click Here for Enlightenment: On Tibet, Hollywood, Virtual Communities, Cyberspace Discourse, and Other Matters of Representational Practice
Frank J. Korom
4. The Words of the Developees: Study of the Discourse of the Tibetan Refugees
Thomas Kauffmann

Part II: Reclaiming Dispossession through Writing

5. Acting and Speaking through Modern Tibetan Poetry
Lama Jabb
6. A Tibetan Heart in a Chinese Mouth: Tsering Woeser's Notes on Tibet
Kamila Hladíková
7. Inner Emigration and Concealed Writing: Folk Literary Elements in Contemporary Fiction from Tibet
Franz Xaver Erhard

Part III: The Political Cultures of Exile

8. The Last Gift of the God-King: Narrating the Dalai Lama’s Resignation
Martin A. Mills
9. Exile Tibetans and the Dance of Democracy
Jigme Yeshe Lama
10. Who is a Pure Tibetan?: Identity, Intergenerational History, and Trauma in Exile
Dawa T. Lokyitsang
11. Annual Commemorations and Celebrations: Negotiations of Identities in the Bonpo Settlement in Dolanji
Yu-Shan Liu

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
Co-Autor	Franz Xaver Erhard, Julia Meredith Hess
Einführung	Thierry Dodin
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 238 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-5238-2 / 1498552382
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-5238-7 / 9781498552387
Zustand	Neuware