Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.
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.
Edition
[20th anniversary edition]
ISBN
9780807080542 (electronic book)
0807080543 (electronic book)
9780807080535
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.
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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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Table of Contents
The Power in the Story
The Three Faces of Sans Souci
An Unthinkable History
Good Day, Columbus
The Presence in the Past.
The Three Faces of Sans Souci
An Unthinkable History
Good Day, Columbus
The Presence in the Past.