The Bravery of the Bang Rachan People: History, Literature, and Ideology

Abstract

This article looks at history and literature in the form of narratives by studying and analyzing two pieces of narration; one is about the heroic act of the bang Rachan people
that appears in a Thai historical text right before they lost to Myanmar for the second time, and the other is a famous novel by Mai Muangdoem, Bong Rachan. The story draws upon
the two theoretical concepts, the art of narrative and the ideology. Through the examination of these well-known historical publication and literature about the bang Rachan people.
it becomes clear that the concept of power relations was weaved in the writing. Together with this discovery, the article also identifies the practice of patriotic ideology intensely
integrated in the story, aiming to create the unity of the nation. Therefore, in the past several years, narratives about the bravery of the Bang Rachan people have been
publicized in forms of the school textbooks on Thai history and various new media content, such as films, television series, and music. The efforts are intended to help engrain,
reproduce and emphasize the patriotic ideology among the Thai people, and sustain the Thai society.