| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Tibetan Situation -- 2. Before Self-Immolation: Tibetan Monks on the World Stage, circa 2008 -- 3. Self-Immolation as Irreversible Speech: The Cost of Expressing Tibetan Aspirations -- 4. Making a Scene: Actor, Time, and Place -- 5. Purpose: Politics, Buddhism, and Tibetan Survival -- 6. External Affairs: The Globalization of China's War on Tibet -- 7. Conclusion: Tibet's Next Incarnation. |
| Abstract |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-208) and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961- Tibet on fire. 9781137373731 1137373733 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781137370358 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137370351 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781137370341 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | 1137370343 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | (print) |
| ISBN | (print) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1057/9781137370358 |
| Stock number | 848838 MIL |
