Tibet on fire Buddhism, protest, and the rhetoric of self-immolation
Machine generated contents note:Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Tibetan Situation -- Tibet as Rhetorical Situation -- Politics, Performance, and Drama -- Argument and Identification -- 2. Before Self-Immolation: Western Media and Tibetan Protests, 2008 -- Charm Offensive: Angry Monks in the Western...
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Tibetan Situation -- Tibet as Rhetorical Situation -- Politics, Performance, and Drama -- Argument and Identification -- 2. Before Self-Immolation: Western Media and Tibetan Protests, 2008 -- Charm Offensive: Angry Monks in the Western Press -- Buddhist Anger as an Anti-Colonial Tradition -- China Syndrome: The Global Suppression of Tibetan Voices -- 3. Irreversible Speech -- Running on Fire: The Act Itself and the Creation of an Image -- New Media and the Great Firewall of China: Distributing the Act -- Censorship and Self-Immolation -- Spreading Like Fire: Act and Agency -- 4. Making a Scene: Actor, Time, and Place -- Pointillism and the Paradigmatic Tibetan Self-Immolator -- Selecting an Origin: How The List Positions the Actor -- PRC Responses: Lunatics, Puppets, Murderers, and Terrorists -- 5. Purpose: Politics, Buddhism, and Tibetan Survival -- Hijacking Religion and Justifying Murder -- What Self-Immolators Say: Statements of Purpose -- Democracy, Division, and Dharamsala Dilemmas -- Tibetan Self-Immolation as Response to Genocide -- Blood on His Hands? The Dalai Lama's Dilemma -- Emptiness Also Is Form: Buddhism and Necessary Worldliness -- 6. External Affairs: The Globalization of China's War on Tibet -- Soft Power in a Hard World -- Standing for Something: Solzhenitsyn and the Endtimes of Human Rights -- Silencing the Dalai Lama: Signs of China's Global War on Free Speech -- 7. Conclusion: Tibet's Next Incarnation. "Extreme conditions lead to extreme protest, and contradictions between the Buddhist-inflected rhetoric of non-harm and the agony of self-immolation have been accounted for variously. The interpreters create descriptions that reflect, select, and sometimes deflect the reality of the burning corpse, calling attention to a certain place and time. In this volume, John Whalen-Bridge applies Kenneth Burke's interpretive suggestions to the phenomenon of a Buddhist-inflected self-immolation movement. Tibet on Fire considers the possibility that the self-burnings could be interpreted as an extension of the struggle that constitutes part of what Kenneth Burke called a 'logomachy.' The volume seeks to: open up the possibility of multiple motivations, explain the significance of shifting contexts, and explore the pervasive substitutions in which the self-immolator and the Dalai Lama trade places in attempts to understand the Tibetan situation. "-- "Using Kenneth Burke's dramatism, a way of exploring multiple motivation in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015 as communication. More than anything else, the act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide"-- "Extreme conditions lead to extreme protest, and contradictions between the Buddhist-inflected rhetoric of non-harm and the agony of self-immolation have been accounted for variously. The interpreters create descriptions that reflect, select, and sometimes deflect the reality of the burning corpse, calling attention to a certain place and time. In this volume, John Whalen-Bridge applies Kenneth Burke's interpretive suggestions to the phenomenon of a Buddhist-inflected self-immolation movement. Tibet on Fire considers the possibility that the self-burnings could be interpreted as an extension of the struggle that constitutes part of what Kenneth Burke called a 'logomachy.' The volume seeks to: open up the possibility of multiple motivations, explain the significance of shifting contexts, and explore the pervasive substitutions in which the self-immolator and the Dalai Lama trade places in attempts to understand the Tibetan situation. "-- "Using Kenneth Burke's dramatism, a way of exploring multiple motivation in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015 as communication. More than anything else, the act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXII, 216 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781137373731 978-1-137-37373-1 1137373733 1-137-37373-3 |