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This song cited by Blanchet (1996) describes a vision of childhood in Bangladesh that is full of laughter and play. Blanchet says that this is a ‘romantic reminiscence of what no longer is’ (1996: 44). Childhood is constructed in the song as a time of freedom, innocence and play, but in Blanchet’s account this is no longer the case. In London, British Bangladeshi ideas about childhood and the stages of life did not subscribe to this romantic notion either. Childhoods and the ways that they are understood have changed over time and space.
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Zeitlyn, B. (2015). Childhoods, Space and Place. In: Transnational Childhoods. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426444_4
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