The Sacrificed Generation

by Sharp, Lesley Alexandra

• ISBN13: 9780520229501
• ISBN10: 0520229509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Youth, historical consciousness, and political agency in independent Francophone Africa- are the themes that frame this study about Madagascar,

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Notes on the Text	xv
PART I. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY
Introduction	3	(1)
Alternative Visions	3	(1)
Historical and Political Considerations	3	(10)
Childhood Reconsidered	13	(8)
Methodological Conundrums	21	(5)
The Organization of the Study	26	(3)
Youth and the Colonized Mind	29	(46)
Revolution and National Transformations	30	(10)
Linguistic Hegemony	40	(11)
Past Sacrifices	51	(3)
Reconfiguring the Nation	54	(8)
Youthful Reflections	62	(13)
PART II. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE, SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL	75	(78)
The Sacrificed Generation	77	(37)
African Inequalities	77	(2)
Encountering Extremes	79	(4)
An Ambanja Education	83	(16)
State Ideology and Pedagogical Praxis	99	(13)
State and the Politics of Schooling	112	(2)
The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant	114	(39)
Portraits of Daily Survival	114	(1)
The Trials of School Migration	115	(17)
The Tenuousness of School Success	132	(7)
Envisioning a Future	139	(14)
PART III. FREEDOM, LABOR, AND LOYALTY	153	(68)
The Resurgence of Royal Power	155	(21)
The Reawakening of a Dormant Kingdom	155	(10)
Conquest and Royal Resistance	165	(4)
Royal Modern	169	(7)
Our Grandfathers Went to War	176	(19)
The Colonial Hunger for African Labor	177	(4)
Conquest, Capture, and Enslavement	181	(2)
The Abandoned Bodies of Lost Ancestors	183	(3)
Colonial Resistance	186	(9)
Laboring for the Colony	195	(26)
A History of Forced Labor	196	(9)
Colonial Loyalties: La Mentalite Coloniale, La Mentalite Indigene	205	(16)
PART IV. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS	221	(62)
Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions	223	(29)
Town Girls	223	(5)
Worldly Diversions	228	(10)
The Immorality of Play	238	(14)
The Social Worth of Children	252	(31)
Lost Youth	253	(8)
Children and Urban Prosperity	261	(12)
Conclusion: Youth in an Age of Nationalism	273	(1)
Despair	273	(1)
Youth and Memory Politics	274	(6)
Future Desires	280	(3)
Appendix 1. A Guide to Key Informants	283	(10)
Appendix 2. Population Figures for Madagascar, 1900-1994	293	(1)
Appendix 3. Population Figures for Ambanja and the Sambirano Valley	294	(3)
Appendix 4. Schools In Ambanja and the Sambirano Valley	297	(6)
Appendix 5. Enrollment Figures for Select Ambanja Schools	303	(6)
Appendix 6. Bac Results at the State-Run Lycee Tsiaraso 1, 1990-1994	309	(1)
Appendix 7. Students' Aspirations	310	(9)
Notes	319	(28)
Glossary	347	(6)
References	353	(18)
Index	371