Silencing the past : Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Author), Hazel V. Carby
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
Print Book, English, 2015, ©1995
Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015, ©1995
xxiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780807080535, 0807080535
957192278
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