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Burning for Peace : = American Self-Immolations During the Vietnam War.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Burning for Peace :/
Reminder of title:	American Self-Immolations During the Vietnam War.
Author:	Brear, Melissa E.
Description:	1 online resource (119 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-01.
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379894030

Burning for Peace : = American Self-Immolations During the Vietnam War.
Brear, Melissa E.

Burning for Peace :American Self-Immolations During the Vietnam War. - 1 online resource (119 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Diego State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

On June 10, 1963, Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quảng Dức committed self-immolation in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon in response to the Ngo Dinh Diem regime's repression of Buddhism and the United States' involvement in Vietnam. American journalist, Malcolm Browne, photographed and documented this event for the entire world to see and evoked intense emotional responses from the Western World. During the Vietnam War, an estimated seventy other Buddhist monks and nuns resorted to self-immolation, all of them sending fiery messages heard worldwide and resonating deeply within the global media. Their actions were viewed as heroic by the Buddhist community. However, they were not the only ones who used self-immolation as a form of protest. From 1965-1967 at least fourteen Americans self-immolated in protest of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, and almost all of them went underreported by the U.S. and Western media. The goal of this thesis is to draw attention to a widely overlooked and underdeveloped part of the Vietnam antiwar scholarship within America. It looks at the reasoning behind the lack of political and cultural resonation that came from these fourteen individuals and hopes to contribute to the field of historical scholarship by analyzing the intersection of war, politics, and culture. Through the use of government and university archives, local and national newspapers, and secondary literature, this thesis argues that the lack of cultural, religious, and political understanding within the Western World reduced the impact these American immolations were able to have.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379894030Subjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Vietnam warIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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