Silencing the past :: power and the production of history /: Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph,; Carby, Hazel V.,

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]

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Carby, Hazel V., writer of foreword.

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Silencing the past.

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