Making Children’s ‘Classics’, Making Past Childhoods: Children’s ‘classics’ as sites for memory politics and nostalgia

Helle Strandgaard Jensen

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Abstract

This chapter aims to explore how nostalgia has influenced the construction of children’s ‘classics’ in Denmark and subsequently the understanding of childhood in the twentieth century. The chapter’s theoretical framework combines theories of childhood and consumption with theories of cultural memory, nostalgia and memory politics. The theoretical reflections are related to an analysis of the Danish Canon of Children’s Culture from 2006, an official list of twelve items argued to be a “fundamental” part of Danish culture. 1 The analysis of the canon explores how the creation and promotion of ‘classic’ media products for children in practice interacts with our contemporary perception of past childhoods.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelReinventing Childhood Nostalgia : Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture
RedaktørerElisabeth Wesseling
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato1 jan. 2017
Kapitel6
ISBN (Trykt)9781472474124
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2017
NavnAshgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

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