Swank: Rewriting Shangri-La

Swank, Heidi:
Rewriting Shangri-La : Tibetan Youth, Migrations and Literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / by Heidi Swank. - Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2014. - xii, 200 S. - (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; 34)
ISBN 978-90-04-26389-5
EUR 92,00 / US$ 120,00
DDC: 305.895421054

Beschreibung
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, etc.) 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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. ix
Notes on the Transliteration and Pronunciation of Tibetan. xi
PART 1: BEGINNINGS: COMMUNITIES AND THEORIES
   1. 'Just Let Go of this Dream of Shangri-La'. 3
   2. Youth Communities and Methodologies. 33
   3. Theories of and in Practice. 55
PART 2: HISTORIES AND WRITINGS OF KYAMKYAM AND SHAPSHU
   4. 'Come to Learn, Go to Serve'. 75
   5. Learning to Serve and to Roam. 91
   6. Writing Divisions. 110
PART 3: YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT A BROTHER, BUT NOT WITHOUT A FRIEND
   7. Families in Exile and Across the Himalayas. 131
   8. 'Friends Like You are Really Oscar Winner'. 151
   9. Rewriting Shangri-La. 171
References. 185
Index. 191

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Autorin
HEIDI SWANK, Ph.D. (2006), Northwestern University, is an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published several articles on Tibetan literacy and Tibetan youth, including co-editing a special issue of International Migration entitled Affecting Migration. Since 2012, she is member of the Nevada Assembly. Homepage.

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