Rewriting Shangri-La : : Tibetan youth, migrations and literacies in McLeod Ganj, India / / by Heidi Swank.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 34
• Author: Swank, Heidi.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Any de publicació: 2014
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 34.
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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, et cetera) 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 ‘Just Let Go of this Dream of Shangri-La’ -- 2 Youth Communities and Methodologies -- 3 Theories of and in Practice -- 4 ‘Come to Learn, Go to Serve’ -- 5 Learning to Serve and to Roam -- 6 Writing Divisions -- 7 Families In Exile and Across the Himalayas -- 8 ‘Friends Like You Are Really Oscar Winner’ -- 9 Rewriting Shangri-La -- References -- Index.