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africa
Author_Lesley A. Sharp
autobiography
case study
Category=GTM
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children
classroom
collective
collective memory
cross cultural
cultural history
cultural studies
education
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ethnography
historical conscious
historical consciousness
identity
identity politics
madagascar
mass media
memory
national history
nationalist
political
political consciousness
politics
postcolonial
school
social history
social studies
victims
violence
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780520229518
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Sep 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
