Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph; American Council of Learned Societies

ISBN 10: 0807080535 / ISBN 13: 9780807080535

Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, USA, 2015

About this Item

xxiii, 190pp w endnotes and index. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Small octavo. Originally published in 1995, this is the 20th Anniversary Edition with a new Foreword by Hazel V. Carby. Seller Inventory # 046235

Bibliographic Details

Title: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production...

Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston, MA, USA

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012) was one of the most prominent Haitian scholars working in the United States. He was the director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History and Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, professor of American studies, and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization at Yale University.