Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History


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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."

It also contains two of Hogg's most interesting stories, 'Marion's Jock' and 'John Gray o' Middleholm'. James Hogg (1770-1835) born in Ettrick, in the Scottish Borders. A shepherd for many years, Hogg was writing poems by The Mystery of a Hansom Cab download ebook the 1790s, aiding Walter Scott with material for his collection of ballads, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In 1810 he moved to Edinburgh, where he published several volumes of verse, and worked on the Spy and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published anonymously in 1824, and is now generally seen as his masterpiece. If you enjoyed Confessions of a Justified Sinner, you might like Matthew Lewis's The Monk, also available in Penguin Classics. 'A Scottish classic, a world classic' Ian Rankin 'A sinister, funny, moving tale of demonic possession, murder and religious fanaticism' Sunday Telegraph


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Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Published Date: 30 Mar 2015
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Country: Boston, MA, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780807080535
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