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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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
1998
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