Exalting the Past: Nostalgia and the Construction of Heritage in Children's Literature

Exalting the Past: Nostalgia and the Construction of Heritage in Children's Literature

In this paper, we analyse the portrayal of Singapore in local children's literature and seek to understand why such a portrayal was prominent, and to what effect. We argue that this literature is characterized by a nostalgic recollection of past times and places. This emergence of the past as a...

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Main Authors: Kong, Lily, Tay, Lily
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1998
Subjects:
Children literature
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Singapore
Geography
Nostalgia
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1806
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3063/viewcontent/ExhaltPastNostalgia_1998.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3063/viewcontent/ExhaltPastNostalgia_1998.pdf

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