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

by Lesley A. Sharp

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229517
• ISBN13: 9780520229518
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"