Haiti and the United States: National stereotypes and the literary imagination - Hardcover

J. Michael Dash

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033345491X ISBN 13: 9780333454916

Publisher: Macmillan Press

Synopsis

Imaginative literature, argues the author, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. This is demonstrated by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through both countries' imaginative literature.

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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.

Review

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Press
• ISBN 10: 033345491X
• ISBN 13: 9780333454916
• Binding: Hardcover