CiNii Books - Tibet on fire : Buddhism, protest, and the rhetoric of self-immolation

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.

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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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