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A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas /

Allen, Christopher H.,

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A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas // Christopher H Allen.
Author:	Allen, Christopher H.,
Description:	1 electronic resource (88 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International86-05.
Subject:	Political activism. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31652253
ISBN:	9798346395874

A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas /
Allen, Christopher H.,

A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas /Christopher H Allen. - 1 electronic resource (88 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05.

In the capital cities of Myanmar (Burma)-present and previous-stand five government-sponsored pagodas, five gold-plated stars linking two architectural constellations. The first of these constellations is composed of the thousands of religious structures that punctuate the landscape of Myanmar, often called the "Land of Pagodas." The second is composed of the monuments erected by the various regimes that have administered the country's government since independence in 1948, each of which embodies its own formulation of national identity and history. Occupying this covalent position, these five pagodas are physical manifestations of an ongoing nationalist project of ethnic and religious homogenization that legitimizes itself through historicist narratives, militaristic violence, and the co-opting of religion in service of political power. They are artifacts of propaganda-tools for "propagating the faith"¹ of ethno-nationalism.As such, these buildings also embody many of the social and political forces that pressured the maternal side of my family to emigrate from the country in the early 1980's, in order to avoid prejudice and persecution as members of marginalized ethnic and religious groups. This thesis therefore operates from a diasporic distance, and is informed by a perspective which lacks the privilege of nostalgia.Taking the five government-sponsored pagodas as its site of departure, this thesis approaches them as narrative media, and comprises a series of investigations into challenging monumental architecture and repurposing its narrative capacities. If these architectural forms function as narrative tools of the state, how can they be claimed in order to tell alternate stories?This thesis approaches memory(s) as an inheritance, augmenting personal and ancestral narratives that have been excised from a history whose authority is predicated on their exclusion. It considers historiography as a process of multiplicity-even dissensus-and proposes the diasporic souvenir as a mechanism for disrupting narrative regimes of power.

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