Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot.

Author
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©1995.
Description
xix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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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, 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.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-186) and index.
        Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • Preface
        • 1. The power in the story
        • 2. The three faces of Sans Souci
        • 3. An unthinkable history
        • 4. Good day, Columbus
        • 5. The presence in the past
        • Epilogue
        • Notes
        • Index..
        ISBN
        • 0807043109
        • 9780807043103
        • 9780807043110
        • 0807043117
        LCCN
        95017665
        OCLC
        32429321
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