Shelly Bhoil is independent scholar in Tibetan studies.

• Part I: Resisting Representation: The Anglophone Tibetan LiteratureChapter 1: Tibetan Literary Influences in the English Poems of Chögyam TrungpaChapter 2: Lessons Unlearned: Identity and Resistance in Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s PoetryChapter 3: Are We There Yet?: The Politics of Tibetan Self-Fashioning and Representation in Tenzin Tsundue's PoetryChapter 4: Hybrid Cartographies: Mapping in The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes Chapter 5: The Faith and the Flag: A Study of Early Nationalist Phase in Tibet in the First Tibetan-English Novel Idols on the PathPart II: Performing Displacement: Film, Art, and MusicChapter 6: The Institutionalization and Transmission of Tibetan Music in Exile: The Tibetan Institute of Performing ArtsChapter 7: Struggle to Inscribe Individuality: Tibetan Pop Singers in India and NepalChapter 8: Tibetan Diasporic Cinema: Traces of Memory, Visions of HopeChapter 9: The Palette Where the Past Meets the Present: A Critical Appreciation of Paintings by Tibetan Children in ExilePart III Testimonial Narration: Media and MemoirChapter 10: Circulating Pluralized Selfhood: Testimony and Witnessing in Protest Pamphlets as Emergent Narrative GenreChapter 11: Human Rights Practice and the Evolution of Testimony in the Tibetan DiasporaChapter 12: Traversing Borders: A Tibetan Odyssey in Coming Home to Tibet

When one thinks of Tibetan culture, one tends to think of Buddhism. However, the past half century has been a period of vibrant cultural work—both in Tibet and in exile—that, if not disconnected, is abstracted from Tibet’s storied Buddhism, and in fascinating ways. This collection of compelling essays brings this work to the audience that it so richly deserves.