Nation-Building Through Historical Narration

Nation-Building Through Historical Narration

Author: Zawiah Yahya

Publisher: Budhi & Ilmu Mandiri

ISBN: 

Size: 25cm x 17.5cm

Weight: 0.054g

Pages: 22pp

Year: 2021

History, like nation-building, is a construct. It can be used as part of the national agenda to build a nation. History textbooks then become an important and effective apparatus for creating a shared narrative for citizens. As a result, one cannot divorce history as a subject in national curriculum from national political agenda. In this paper, Zawiah Yahya examines the provisional, relative and plural perspectives in historical writings and calls for the pondering over the nation's collective memory in a critical and comparative way.