The sacrificed generation : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Madagascar.

Youth.

Education--Madagascar.

Education.

Youth--Madagascar--Political activity.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley Sharp refutes dominant assumptions that African children are the helpless victims of postcolonial crises, incapable of organized, sustained collective thought or action. She insists instead on the political agency of Malagasy youth who, as they decipher their current predicament, offer potent, historicized critiques of colonial violence, nationalist resistance, foreign mass media, and schoolyard survival. Sharp asserts that autobiography and national history are inextricably linked and therefore must be read in tandem, a process that exposes how political consciousness is forged in the classroom, within the home, and on the street in Madagascar. Keywords: Critical pedagogy

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

PART ONE. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY

PART TWO. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE , SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL

PART THREE. FREEDOM , LABOR, AND LOYALTY

PART FOUR. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS

APPENDIX ONE. A GUIDE TO KEY INFORMANTS

APPENDIX TWO. POPULATION FIGURES FOR MADAGASCAR 1900-1994

APPENDIX THREE. POPULATION FIGURES FOR AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY

APPENDIX FOUR. SCHOOLS IN AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY

APPENDIX FIVE. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR SELECT AMBANJA SCHOOLS (PRIMARY, CEG,AND LYCÉE , 1993-94, 1994-95)

APPENDIX SIX. BAC RESULTS AT THE STATE-RUN LYCÉE TSIRASO I, 1990-1994

APPENDIX SEVEN. STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS

NOTES

GLOSSARY

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-370) and index.

ISBN:

9786612762512

9781282762510

1282762516

9780520935884

0520935888

9781597348843

1597348848

OCLC:

475930013