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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhoil, Shelly, editor.

Galvan-Alvarez, Enrique, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Studies in modern Tibetan culture.

Studies in modern Tibetan culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism.

Group identity.

Tibetans.

Social Identification.

buddhism.

group identity.

Medical Subjects:

Buddhism.

Social Identification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages).

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3626-6

1-4985-5239-0

OCLC:

1065861560