Tibetan subjectivities on the global stage : negotiating dispossession
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Tibetan subjectivities on the global stage : negotiating dispossession
（Studies in modern Tibetan culture）
Lexington Books, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Thierry Dodin
Part I: Strategies of Identity in Motion
1. Zhangzhung, Boen, and China: The Construction of an Alternative Tibetan Historical Narrative
Per Kvaerne
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 Hladikova
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
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