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An Integrating Political Discourse Analysis On Historic Museum

Posted on:2016-07-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L C LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2308330464472252Subject:Political sociology
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The exhibitions of museums are the basic forms of how the museums accomplish its public cultural functions. Generally exhibitions of the museums in accordance with the linear narrative of nation-state and bifurcated narrative of regions, there is a strong political tension between two narrative discourses. Reflected:linear historical narrative and focus on the root causes of the evolution of the nation-state path generated display presentation, through the selection and arrangement of cultural relics, history was re-organized, the legitimacy of political power in line with statements. Thus, the sense of national identity has been further spread and intensifies in the museum’s displays and exhibitions, the museum as a national value reproduction moisten tools, making the living system in the superstructure of modern Chinese Nation concept has been reproduced, the long run deep-rooted cultural identity will be renewed. Museum linear narrative is a way to arrange the timing of history, in this arrangement for a particular country is abstract political symbol, it is not just on display in the museum system, but also political and cultural reproduction of the system, in museums, national identity continue be reproduced by the form of displays and exhibitions. The double-track historical narrative detail and attention to cultural diversity in the region, highlighting the uniqueness of the local culture, there are details of the double-track historical narrative to explore the past and ignore the historical consciousness of the mainstream linear masking. Through artifacts on display show, with a wealth of local narrative reproduction, a place full of history and culture, in order to raise public awareness of the concept of local identity. Public life at the moment is not easy to be infected with grand statements, but may be subtle feelings of the infection; bifurcated narrative to some extent can be considered local history, regional history exposition. Two deep-rooted contradicted narrative that both have the trend of expansions, are trying to dominate the discourse. Expansion linear historical narrative will be obscured this would obscure local history. Expansion of double track will be a national historical narrative integrity of digestion in the endless details. But on the other hand linear narrative is not incompatible with the bifurcated narrative again. Double-track linear narrative needs to enrich the narrative, double-track linear narrative to guide the narrative needs. The more local the bifurcated narratives, the need to integrate into nation-state linear narrative, only to be integrated into the linear narrative have lasting vitality. More National-linear narrative countries need to add more local bifurcated narrative. Two different modes of narrative integration is one of the positive trend in the museum.
Keywords/Search Tags:museum, power, exhibition, narrative discourse
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