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Silencing the past : Power and the Production of History / Michel-Rolph Trouillot ; with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historicism.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 190 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1995]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Presented here with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel V. Carby, Silencing the Past is an indispensable analysis of the silences in our historical narratives, of what is omitted and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Power in the Story
- The Three Faces of Sans Souci
- An Unthinkable History
- Good Day, Columbus
- The Presence in the Past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807080542
- 0807080543
- Publisher Number:
- 99985067038
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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