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- The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of California Press
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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
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
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Notes on the Text
- pp. xv-xviii
- Part I: The Reconstruction of a Children’s History
- Introduction
- pp. 3-28
- 1. Youth and the Colonized Mind
- pp. 29-72
- 2. The Sacrificed Generation
- pp. 77-113
- Part III: Freedom, Labor, and Loyalty
- pp. 151-154
- 4. The Resurgence of Royal Power
- pp. 155-175
- 5. Our Grandfathers Went to War
- pp. 176-194
- 6. Laboring for the Colony
- pp. 195-218
- 7. Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions
- pp. 223-251
- 8. The Social Worth of Children
- pp. 252-272
- Conclusion: Youth in an Age of Nationalism
- pp. 273-282
- Appendix 1. A Guide to Key Informants
- pp. 283-292
- Appendix 7. Students' Aspirations
- pp. 310-318
- References
- pp. 353-370
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520935884
Related ISBN(s)
9780520229501
MARC Record
OCLC
475930013
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No