L. McMillin

Broschiertes Buch

English in Tibet, Tibet in English

Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora

Beschreibung

This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of British writers in their travel texts to Tibet from 1774 to 1910 and that of Tibetans in recent autobiographies in English. McMillin contends that Tibet and the Anglophone West have had a long, complex, and convoluted relationship that can be explored, in part, through analysis of English language texts. The first part of the book explores how a myth of epiphany in Tibet comes to dominate English texts of travel in Tibet, while the second part considers how Tibetan autobiographers writing in English have responded and resisted Western images of them.

Autor

LAURIE HOVELL MCMILLIN teaches writing at Oberlin College. She has travelled among Tibetan communities since 1982.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-38685-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781349386857
• ISBN-10: 1349386855
• Artikelnr.: 45074197

Rezensionen

English in Tibet, Tibet in English is the first work to examine as literature some of the most influential English-language works on Tibet. - Donald Lopez, University of Michigan