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Silencing the past: power and the production of history

By Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Book information

Publisher
Beacon Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780807080542, 9780807080535
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (38294512 bytes)
Edition
20th Anniversary Edition
Pages
224\216
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 07:31:49

Description

Foreword by Hazel V. Carby A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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