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The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar
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by Lesley A. Sharp


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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

First line

In June 1993, I returned to Madagascar following an absence of six and a half years, and by the end of my first day back, my head was swimming.

From the rear cover

"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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  • Title The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar
  • Author Lesley A. Sharp
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2002-09-03
  • ISBN 9780520229518 / 0520229517
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.08 x 0.95 in (22.76 x 15.44 x 2.41 cm)
  • Reading level 1380
  • Library of Congress subjects Imperialism, Youth - Madagascar
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001007074
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

About the author

Lesley A. Sharp is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and author of The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (California, 1993).
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