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ERIC #:	EJ915019
Title:	Still Burning: Self-Immolation as Photographic Protest
Authors:	Yang, Michelle Murray
Descriptors:	Photography; Visual Aids; Rhetoric; Self Destructive Behavior; Buddhism; Clergy; Activism; Death; Citizen Participation; Empowerment; Asian History; War; Journalism; Conflict; Government (Administrative Body); Foreign Countries
Source:	Quarterly Journal of Speech, v97 n1 p1-25 Feb 2011
More Info: Help Peer Reviewed:	Yes
Publisher:	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Date:	2011-02-00
Pages:	25
Pub Types:	Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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.)
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Identifiers:	South Vietnam (Saigon)
Record Type:	Journal
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ISSN:	ISSN-0033-5630
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Languages:	English
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Direct Link:	http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&id=doi:10.1080/00335630.2010.536565

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