Trauma, memory, and ritual: The cultural memory of post-228 Incident memorial culture

• Main Authors: Hui-lan Chang, 張惠嵐
• Other Authors: Shih-che Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01307466621591657167

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電訊傳播研究所 === 99 === This study takes a sociological approach to Taiwan’s 228 Incident--an event that involves the massive violence of the government against the people. It deals with two questions: Given that the “228 Incident” is commemorated as a historic event, how is the“historic” quality bestowed upon this particular event? Furthermore, how is the significance of this event (or essential significance for that matter) derived? The study mainly takes issue with the event as a “post-228 Incident,” a historical retrospective that is mnemonically resurrected in rituals and the press coverage. Using methods such as participant observation, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis, this study is engaged in examining how the incident and memory to it are recurssively constructed in an array of social spaces, involve different carrier groups, and policitized with different poltical intersts by the political regimes. This study states how the post-228 Incident memorial culture relates to the political abuse of traumatic memory by a constructive process that comprises of the historical/factual to the political and the personal to the collective.