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Author Akerman, Sean, author.

Title Words and wounds : narratives of exile / Sean Akerman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Explorations in narrative psychology
Explorations in narrative psychology.
Contents The narrative complexity of history -- The shape of narrative identity in exile -- Personal narratives and the creation of a political voice -- The rhetoric of narrative work -- Ethical and interpretive stances in narrative work -- Reflections -- Epilogue
Summary In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted with Tibetan exiles in New York City, and supplemented with archival research from other exiles around the world, Akerman investigates how narrative approaches can reveal what it's like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomes contested within displaced groups, and how personal stories can impact on political realities
Notes Online resource; title from HTML homepage (Oxford, viewed November 30, 2020)
Subject Exiles -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Group identity -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Exiles
Group identity
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190851743
0190851740
9780190851729
0190851724