The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar

Name: The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520229518
Price: 4102.00 INR
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by Lesley A. Sharp

University of California Press · 2002 · Paperback

An ethnographic study of schoolchildren in Madagascar and how they remember and understand their history, challenging common assumptions about African youth. Suited to readers of anthropology and African studies.

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About this book

Youth and identity politics sit at the centre of this study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. Lesley A. Sharp writes an ethnography of historical consciousness, and its key actors are schoolchildren rather than adults.

The book pushes back against the widespread picture of children in Africa as passive casualties of postcolonial crises, and presents them instead as capable of organised, sustained collective action. It is written as a close, nuanced account of how young people in Madagascar think about their past.

Published by University of California Press, with ISBN-13 9780520229518.