Introduction: Whose re-imagined community?
Imagining and instituting a new youth
Envisioning youth across the border of independence
Ideologies of schooling, teachers' authority, and cultural revolution
The rise of militant theater
Ventures and misadventures in the revolutionary forest
Construing and constructing the nation's margins : troubles with the forest and forestiers
Forestier itineraries across revolutionary pedagogical domains
Forestier stories of militant theater : discovering the motives and moralities of a revolutionary state
Conclusion: Nationalism and memory after the revolution.