Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Transliteration and Pronunciation of Tibetan -- Part One Beginnings: Communities and Theories -- Chapter One 'Just Let Go of this Dream of Shangri-la' -- Chapter Two Youth Communities and Methodologies -- Chapter Three Theories of and in Practice -- Part Two Histories and Writings of Kyamkyam and Shapshu -- Chapter Four 'Come to Learn, Go to Serve' -- Chapter Five Learning to Serve and to Roam -- Chapter Six Writing Divisions -- Part Three You Can Live without a Brother, But not without a Friend
Chapter Seven Families In Exile and Across the Himalayas -- Chapter Eight 'Friends like you are Really Oscar Winner' -- Chapter Nine Rewriting Shangri-la -- References -- Index
Summary
In Rewriting Shangri-La, Heidi Swank examines the differing histories of migration and exile through the lens of everyday literacies
