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Zusatztext "Aside from its particular focus on performances and rhetoric-which may interest those already familiar with the self-immolations-Tibet on Fire also serves as a general introduction to the Tibetan self-immolation phenomenon! and provides comprehensive! introductory-level background on Tiber-China history! Tibetan Buddhism! and international politics vis-à-vis the Tibet-China conflict. Tibet on Fire may thus also be of interest to those seeking a general introduction to the self-immolations themselves as well as the Tibet-China conflict in general." (Benjamin Wood! Journal of Global Buddhism! Vol. 17! 2016) Informationen zum Autor John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Introduction: The Tibetan SituationTibet as Rhetorical SituationPolitics, Performance, and DramaArgument and Identification2. Before Self-Immolation: Western Media and Tibetan Protests, 2008Charm Offensive: Angry Monks in the Western PressBuddhist Anger as an Anti-Colonial TraditionChina Syndrome: The Global Suppression of Tibetan Voices3. Irreversible SpeechRunning on Fire: The Act Itself and the Creation of an ImageNew Media and the Great Firewall of China: Distributing the ActCensorship and Self-ImmolationSpreading Like Fire: Act and Agency4. Making a Scene: Actor, Time, and PlacePointillism and the Paradigmatic Tibetan Self-ImmolatorSelecting an Origin: How The List Positions the ActorPRC Responses: Lunatics, Puppets, Murderers, and Terrorists5. Purpose: Politics, Buddhism, and Tibetan SurvivalHijacking Religion and Justifying MurderWhat Self-Immolators Say: Statements of PurposeDemocracy, Division, and Dharamsala DilemmasTibetan Self-Immolation as Response to GenocideBlood on His Hands? The Dalai Lama's DilemmaEmptiness Also Is Form: Buddhism and Necessary Worldliness6. External Affairs: The Globalization of China's War on TibetSoft Power in a Hard WorldStanding for Something: Solzhenitsyn and the Endtimes of Human RightsSilencing the Dalai Lama: Signs of China's Global War on Free Speech7. Conclusion: Tibet's Next Incarnation ...
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"Aside from its particular focus on performances and rhetoric-which may interest those already familiar with the self-immolations-Tibet on Fire also serves as a general introduction to the Tibetan self-immolation phenomenon, and provides comprehensive, introductory-level background on Tiber-China history, Tibetan Buddhism, and international politics vis-à-vis the Tibet-China conflict. Tibet on Fire may thus also be of interest to those seeking a general introduction to the self-immolations themselves as well as the Tibet-China conflict in general." (Benjamin Wood, Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 17, 2016)
