Silencing the past
power and the production of history
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Author
Publication
1995 - Beacon Press, Boston, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
47,750 words, Guess
Page Count
191 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesilencingpastpow00trou
- ISBN-100807043109
- ISBN-139780807043103
- Goodreads2392137
- Library of Congress Control Number95017665
Classifications
- DDC901
- LCCD16.9 .T85 1995
- LCCD16.9.T85 1995
Description
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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