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Haiti and the United States

National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

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.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-333-68017-9 / 978-0333680179 / 9780333680179

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsdatum: 11.12.1996

Seiten: 182

Auflage: 2

Autor(en): J. Michael Dash

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