The Sacrificed Generation

Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar

By: Lesley A. Sharp

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Paperback | 3 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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

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"This fascinating study, grounded in vivid depictions of local life, relates to larger questions about the postcolonial exercise of political and economic power, when ostensibly sovereign states such as Madagascar are so profoundly controlled by international organizations unattached to any particular state. Sharp asks how young people in these radically changing circumstances are taught and teach themselves to understand their past, present and future."-Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of A Green Estate; "Sharp's work is in the best tradition of classic anthropology, extending the critiques of Fanon, Mannoni, Memmi, and Freire by examining the effects of the socialist revolution, the birth of Malagasy nationalism, and the imposition of a postcolonial pedagogy on the minds of the 'sacrificed generation.'...Her detailed ethnography...is superb."-Nancy Scheper-Hughes, author of Death without Weeping

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Parenting: Advice & Issues Child Care & Upbringing Advice for Parents of Teenagers Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Regional Studies Society & Culture Social Groups Age Groups Age Groups for Children

History Regional & National History African History Archaeology Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
The Reconstruction of a Children's History Introduction
Youth and the Colonized Mind
The Perplexities of Urban Schooling: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Survival
The Sacrificed Generation
The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant
Freedom, Labor, and Loyalty
The Resurgence of Royal Power
Our Grandfathers Went to War
Laboring for the Colony
Youth and the Nation: Schooling and Its Perils
Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions
The Social Worth of Children Conclusion: Youth in an Age of Nationalism
A Guide to Key Informants
Population Figures for Madagascar, 1990-1994
Population Figures for the Sambirano
Schools in Ambanja and the Sambirano Valley
Enrollment Figures for Select Ambanja Schools
Bac Results at the State-Run Lycee Tsiaraso I, 1990-1994
Students' Aspirations
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
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