Words and Wounds: Narratives of Exile

By Sean Akerman

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190851716
• ISBN13: 9780190851712
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"