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Haiti and the United States
J. Michael Dash
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Description for Haiti and the United States
paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 266.
Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic fierceness in the 1960s. In an effort to resist these stereotypes, Haitian literature becomes a subversive manoeuvre permitting Haitians to 'rewrite' themselves. The Unites States 'invented' Haiti as a land of savagery and mystery, a ... Read more
Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic fierceness in the 1960s. In an effort to resist these stereotypes, Haitian literature becomes a subversive manoeuvre permitting Haitians to 'rewrite' themselves. The Unites States 'invented' Haiti as a land of savagery and mystery, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312164904
SKU
V9780312164904
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Reviews for Haiti and the United States
'Dash's book is a sophisticated and fascinating critical study of the clash of cultures illuminating many of the political positions taken by each country at crucial stages of history.' - David Nicholls, Times Higher Education Supplement