Postcolonial aspiration and contestation : politics and poetics of nationalist discourses in two national museums of South Korea

After colonial liberation from Japan in 1945, Koreans have been eager to establish their sovereignty and to elevate national pride through nationalism. In South Korea, the nationalist discourse is ubiquitous, and generated top-down directly from the government as well as bottom-up in both tradition...

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Main Author: Chun, Kyung Hyo
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43423