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HAITI AND THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL STEREOTYPES AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION |
| Volume: |
1997 |
| By: |
J. Michael Dash |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£44.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333680189 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333680186 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 1996 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
182 |
| Description: |
This text examines the relations between Haiti and the United States through the 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 19th century until it emerges strongly in the 1960s. |
| Synopsis: |
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 source of evil and shame. Weaving together text and historical context, Dash discusses the durability of these images, which continue to shape official policy and popular attitudes today. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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