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In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed SA(c)kou TourA(c) to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, and until his death in 1984, SA(c)kou TourA(c) 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.
"Skilfully weaves together different accounts, perspectives, and voices to reveal a complex and nuanced story of a postcolonial African socialist state... well conceived, analytically compelling, and elegantly written." Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution
| Acknowledgments ix | |
| List of Abbreviations xi | |
| Introduction: Whose Re-imagined Community? | p. 1 |
| Imagining and Instituting a New Youth | p. 17 |
| Envisioning Youth across the Border of Independence | p. 19 |
| Ideologies of Schooling, Teachers' Authority, and Cultural Revolution | p. 56 |
| The Rise of Militant Theater | p. 80 |
| Ventures and Misadventures in the Revolutionary Forest | p. 105 |
| Construing and Constructing the Nation's Margins: Troubles with the Forest and Forestiers | p. 107 |
| Forestier Itineraries across Revolutionary Pedagogical Domains | p. 133 |
| Forestier Stories of Militant Theater: Discovering the Motives and Moralities of a Revolutionary State | p. 176 |
| Conclusion: Nationalism and Memory after the Revolution | p. 204 |
| Notes | p. 215 |
| Bibliography | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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ISBN: 9780253220592
ISBN-10: 0253220599
Series: African Systems of Thought
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 280
Published: 1st April 2009
Dimensions (cm): 23.1 x 15.5
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.44
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