The Rhetorical Plasticity of the Dead in Museum Displays: A Biocritique of Missing Intercultural Awareness

Autor/inn/en	Gorsevski, Ellen W.; Schuck, Raymond I.; Lin, Canchu
Titel	The Rhetorical Plasticity of the Dead in Museum Displays: A Biocritique of Missing Intercultural Awareness
Quelle	In: Western Journal of Communication, 76 (2012) 3, S.314-332 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1057-0314
DOI	10.1080/10570314.2012.654888
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Human Body; Non Western Civilization; Death; Plastics; Audience Response; Museums; Exhibits; Ethics; Audiences; Rhetoric; Cultural Awareness; Rhetorical Criticism; Violence; Power Structure; Personal Autonomy; Models; Moral Values; Human Dignity; Social Attitudes; Ethnography; Interpersonal Competence; Cultural Context; Recreational Activities; Leisure Time; Program Design; Educational Experience; Controversial Issues (Course Content); China; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Menschlicher Körper; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Plastisches Material; Zuschauerverhalten; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Ethik; Spectator; Zuschauer; Rhetorik; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Gewalt; Individuelle Autonomie; Analogiemodell; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Menschenwürde; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ethnografie; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Freizeitgestaltung; Freizeit; Programme design; Programmaufbau; Programmplanung; Bildungserfahrung; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; USA
Abstract	Using rhetorical analysis in the form of an autoethnographically informed biocritique, this study applies and expands the concept of rhetorical plasticity to examine the popular museum exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition," which is arguably the most controversial of a series of contemporary museum exhibits that feature deceased human bodies that have been plasticized and entertainingly displayed for public viewing in museums in cities worldwide. We investigate how rhetorical tropes, such as biological and health discourses that pleasantly effuse reason, and fun action poses, operate synergistically to invite audiences into a forgetting of cultural awareness and personal biography in exhibits that display unknown Chinese bodies to Western audiences. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10