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Silencing the past : power and the production of history
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Silencing the past : power and the production of history

Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©1995.
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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,  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph.
Silencing the past.
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1995
(OCoLC)603867424
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
ISBN: 0807043109 9780807043103
OCLC Number: 32429321
Description: xix, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The Power in the Story --
The Three Faces of Sans Souci --
An Unthinkable History --
Good Day, Columbus --
The Presence in the Past.
Responsibility: Michel-Rolph Trouillot.

Abstract:

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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