Tibet on Fire

Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation

John Whalen-Bridge (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-37373-1 (ISBN)

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Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity in the face of cultural genocide.

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2015
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 216 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-137-37373-3 / 1137373733
ISBN-13	978-1-137-37373-1 / 9781137373731
Zustand	Neuware