We Are No Monks. Narrating the Self Through New Tibetan Exile Cinema

Natalia Bloch

Published: 2017-12-31

Vol. 37 (2016)

We Are No Monks. Narrating the Self Through New Tibetan Exile Cinema

Natalia Bloch

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse responses given by the young generation of Tibetan ‘born refugees’ to imaginations of Tibet which exist in global culture. They employ cinema as a medium for narrating about themselves: going beyond the idealized image of Tibetans created both by Western popular culture and the identity politics of Tibetan diaspora elites. This study presents an analysis of visual representations of Tibetanness in the new Tibetan exile cinema which burst on scene in the last decade of the 20th century.

Keywords:

Tibetans, diaspora, born refugees, Tibetan cinema, identity politics

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Bloch, N. (2017). We Are No Monks. Narrating the Self Through New Tibetan Exile Cinema. Ethnologia Polona, 37, 101–114. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/ethp/article/view/69

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Natalia Bloch

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-550X

Affiliation:

Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

M.A. in politology and PhD in ethnology at the Adam Mickiewicz University; PhD. Hab. in social anthropology; assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.