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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.
Tibet on Fire Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation
by Whalen-Bridge, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2015-10-08
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Author Biography
John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His research connecting film, literature, martial arts, and meditation explores Asian and Euro-American cultural co-evolution. The author of Political Fiction and the American Self, he has also edited four volumes on Buddhism and American culture.
Table of Contents
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
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