Youth, nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution / Jay Straker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straker, Jay, 1967-

Series:

African systems of thought.

African systems of thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Guinea--Political activity--History--20th century.

Youth.

Political socialization--Guinea--History--20th century.

Political socialization.

Social classes--Guinea--History--20th century.

Social classes.

Theater and state--Guinea--History--20th century.

Theater and state.

Nationalism--Guinea--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Postcolonialism--Guinea.

Postcolonialism.

Revolutions and socialism--Guinea.

Revolutions and socialism.

Guinea--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Guinea.

Guinea--Politics and government--1958-1984.

Guinea--Social conditions--20th century.

Guinea--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed Sékou Touré to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, and until his death in 1984, Sékou Touré ruled with an iron fist. What would it have been like to participate in Guinea's changing political fortunes? Jay Straker invites readers to reconsider the sources, stakes, and ramifications of Guinea's nation-building experience. By engaging official political tracts, state and popular newspapers, education journals, novels, poems, plays, photographs, and personal histories, Straker offers an alternative view of the uneven effects of the state's attempts to reshape popular attitudes, social practice, and youth consciousness. Showing how visions of ideal youth played into the workings of revolutionary power, Straker creates a captivating and intense history that uncovers the ambitions that drove militant socialist-revolutionary politics in Guinea.

Contents:

Introduction: Whose re-imagined community?

Imagining and instituting a new youth

Envisioning youth across the border of independence

Ideologies of schooling, teachers' authority, and cultural revolution

The rise of militant theater

Ventures and misadventures in the revolutionary forest

Construing and constructing the nation's margins : troubles with the forest and forestiers

Forestier itineraries across revolutionary pedagogical domains

Forestier stories of militant theater : discovering the motives and moralities of a revolutionary state

Conclusion: Nationalism and memory after the revolution.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-10331-8

9786612103315

0-253-00272-9

OCLC:

370909762