Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, author.; Carby, Hazel V., writer of foreword.
2015
D16.9 .T85 2015eb
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Title Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.
Author Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, author.
Edition [20th anniversary edition]
ISBN 9780807080542 (electronic book)
0807080543 (electronic book)
9780807080535
Published Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015].
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Call Number D16.9 .T85 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 901
Summary In this provocative analysis of historical narrative, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates, often invisibly, at all stages in the making of history to silence certain voices. From the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution, the most successful slave revolt in history, to the continued debate over denials of the Holocaust, and the meaning of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Trouillot shows us that history is not simply the recording of facts and events, but a process of actively enforced silences, some unconscious, others quite deliberate.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Carby, Hazel V., writer of foreword.
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