Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of HistoryIn 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. |
What people are saying - Write a review
User ratings
| 5 stars |
| ||
| 4 stars |
| ||
| 3 stars |
| ||
| 2 stars |
| ||
| 1 star |
|
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
LibraryThing Review
User Review - Beartracker - LibraryThingHistory may be written by the winners, but it is also written by those in power. Often, they are one and the same. So, who is to say what becomes “history” and what does not? Who controls what is ... Read full review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - dangnad - LibraryThingThis book starts out with an interesting notion: There are two aspects of history (1) the sociohistorical process, that is, "what happened" and (2) the historical narrative, that is, "that which is ... Read full review
Contents
The Three Faces of Sans Souci | 31 |
Good Day Columbus | 108 |
The Presence in the Past | 141 |
Copyright | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
academic acknowledge actors American archives became become Caribbean celebrations century Chicago Christophe Christophe's claim colonial Columbus continuous cultural death debate discourse discovery early equally Europe European evidence existence facts fair forces France French Further Haiti Haitian Revolution happened Henry historians human important independence Indians individuals issue Italy knowledge landing later Latin leaders least less limited living mass matter means memory mention narrative narrator nature North noted October palace Paris past philosophical political position possible practice present production question reasons remains resistance revolutionary rules Saint-Domingue Sans Souci sides significance silences slavery slaves Souci sources Spain Spanish started story suggests thought tion took Trouillot turn United University Press various wanted West Western writing York
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Author | Michel-Rolph Trouillot |
| Contributor | Hazel V. Carby |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0807043109, 9780807043103 |
| Length | 191 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Historiography |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |