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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lesley Alexandra Sharp |
| ISBN: | 0520229509 9780520229501 0520229517 9780520229518 |
| OCLC Number: | 48473892 |
| Description: | xv, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Lesley A. Sharp. |
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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 Read more...
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