Fictions, nation-building and ideologies of belonging in children's literature: an analysis of Tunzi the Faithful Shadow

This article demonstrates, through Michael Gascoigne’s Tunzi the Faithful Shadow (1988), that literature for children is sometimes employed by the government into the service of propagating dominant state ideologies in Zimbabwean schools. Such texts disseminate issues of inclusion and exclusion that...

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Main Author: Tagwirei, Cuthbeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2016
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10583-012-9178-z
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1324
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