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Silencing the Past

Power and the Production of History

Pocket
Engelsk
Silencing the Past
Silencing the Past
  • Forfatter: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 216
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780807080535
  • Utgivelsesår: 2015
  • Bidragsyter: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
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Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck

The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby

 
Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

This modern classic resides at the intersection of history, anthropology, Caribbean, African-American, and post-colonial studies, and has become a staple in college classrooms around the country. In a new foreword, Hazel Carby explains the book’s enduring importance to these fields of study and introduces a new generation of readers to Trouillot’s brilliant analysis of