English in Tibet,Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of British writers in their travel texts on 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 to and resisted western images of them.
SYNOPSIS
Tibet and the West have had a long, complex, and convoluted relationship, says McMillin (rhetoric and composition, Oberlin College). She explores at least part of that relationship by analyzing English language texts, especially by British travellers and Tibetan autobiographers from the time of British colonial presence in India, when Tibet became a focus and sometimes a preoccupation of the West.
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FROM THE CRITICS
Donald Lopez
...first work to examine as literature some of the most influential English-language works on Tibet.
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