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Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia - Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture (Paperback)
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Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia - Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been
understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the
child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media
has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is
childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is
associated through contemporary convergence culture with the
commodities of one's youth as they are recycled from one media
platform to another. Essays in the volume's first section identify
recurrent patterns in the recycling, adaptation, and remediation of
children's toys and media, providing context for section two's
exploration of childhood nostalgia in memorial practices. In these
essays, the contributors suggest that childhood toys and media play
a role in the construction of s the imagined communities (Benedict
Anderson) that define nations and nationalism. Eschewing the
dichotomy between restorative and reflexive nostalgia, the essays
in section three address the ethics of nostalgia in terms of child
agency and depictions of childhood. In a departure from the notion
that childhood nostalgia is the exclusive prerogative of narrative
fiction, section four looks for its traces in the child sciences.
Pushing against nostalgia's persistent associations with wishful
thinking, false memories, and distortion, this collection suggests
nostalgia is never categorically good or bad in itself, but owes
its benefits or defects to the ways in which it is brought to bear
on the representation of children and childhood.
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