Still Burning: Self-Immolation as Photographic Protest

Autor/in	Yang, Michelle Murray
Titel	Still Burning: Self-Immolation as Photographic Protest
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 97 (2011) 1, S.1-25 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Photography; Visual Aids; Rhetoric; Self Destructive Behavior; Buddhism; Clergy; Activism; Death; Citizen Participation; Empowerment; Asian History; War; Journalism; Conflict; Government (Administrative Body); Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fotografie; Anschauungsmaterial; Rhetorik; Self destrucive behaviour; Selbstzerstörung; Buddhismus; Klerus; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Krieg; Journalistik; Journalismus; Konflikt; Government; Regierung; Ausland
Abstract	Examining Malcolm Browne's photograph of the burning monk as well as appropriations of it by the Ministers' Vietnam Committee, I argue that self-immolation is a powerful rhetorical act that utilizes self-inflicted violence as a means of performing a visual embodiment of violence done by an "other." I assert that the power and resonance of Browne's photograph stem from its freezing in time of what Barbie Zelizer terms "the about to die moment." Additionally, this study expands Zelizer's concept by examining how appropriations of the burning monk image demonstrate the resonance of images of the dead and their potential to promote agency and civic engagement. (Contains 95 notes and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10