Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; Chapter 1: Youth and the Colonized Mind; Part Two: The Perplexities of Urban Schooling: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Survival; Chapter 2: The Sacrificed Generation; Chapter 3: The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant; Part Three: Freedom, Labor, and Loyalty; Chapter 4: The Resurgence of Royal Power; Chapter 5: Our Grandfathers Went to War; Chapter 6: Laboring for the Colony; Part Four: Youth and the Nation: Schooling and Its Perils; Chapter 7: Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions
Summary
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 school children
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index