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The sacrificed
generation : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar /
Lesley A. Sharp. - Berkeley : University of California press,
2002. - XV-377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0-520-22950-9
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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR
: 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.
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| CONTENTS |
List of Illustrations / List of Tables / Notes on the Text / Acknowledgments
I- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY
Introduction
1. Youth and the colonized mind
II- THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING : SACRIFICE, SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL
2. The sacrificed generation
3. The life and hard times of the school migrant
III- FREEDOM, LABOR, AND LOYALTY
4. The resurgence of royal power
5. Our grandfathers went to war
6. Laboring for the colony
IV- YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS
7. Girls and sex and other urban diversions
8. The social worth of children
CONCLUSION : YOUTH IN AN AGE OF NATIONALISM
Appendix 1. A Guide to Key Informants
Appendix 2. Population Figures for Madagascar, 1990-1994
Appendix 3. Population Figures for the Sambirano
Appendix 4. Schools in Ambanja and the Sambirano Valley
Appendix 5. Enrollment Figures for Select Ambanja Schools
Appendix 6. Bac Results at the State-Run Lycee Tsiaraso I, 1990-1994
Appendix 7. Students' Aspirations
Notes / Glossary / References / Index |
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COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
- « The
possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a
Madagascar migrant town », Berkeley : University of
California press, 1993
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