1st Edition

Reimagining Tibet Politics of Literary Representation

By Koushik Goswami Copyright 2023
228 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

228 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

228 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book examines how territorial, civilisational and cultural location determines one’s gaze and attitude while representing a contested space like Tibet. It analyses representations of Tibet in three novels: James Hilton’s Lost Horizon (1933), Jamyang Norbu’s The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999) and Kaushik Barua’s Windhorse (2013). It shows how these novels project different types of... Read more

 

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Tibet and the Politics of Representation

Chapter 2: Tibet as Myth: Patterns of Gaze in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon

Chapter 3: Looking at Tibet from India: Tibetan Resistance Movement in  Kaushik Barua’s Windhorse

Chapter 4: An Insider’s View of Tibet: Jamyang Norbu’s The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes

Chapter 5: Reconfiguring Tibet: Tibetan Activism in Diaspora

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Emergence of Pan-Tibetan Imagination

 

Appendices: Interviews

1.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Kaushik Barua

2.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Jamyang Norbu

3.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tenzin Tsundue

4.       Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Bhuchung D. Sonam

5.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Thubten Samphel

6.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tsering Namgyal Khortsa

7.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

8.      Koushik Goswami in Conversation with Tenzin Dickie

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

Koushik Goswami is a doctoral research scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and teaches English at Malda College, West Bengal, India. He was a Humanities Visiting Scholar at the University of Exeter, the United Kingdom.