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Silencing the Past is a meditation on the characteristics of power and how it influences the creation and recording of histories. Spanning examples from The Alamo and Christopher Columbus to the position of the Haitian Revolution in the collective memory of Western society, Trouillot analyzes conventional historical narratives to understand why certain parts of history are remembered when ...
Books such as Jean Métellus's Louis Vortex (1992, réédition 2005) depict the daily life of Haitian exiles in their host countries. From the Duvalier dictatorship to beginning of the third millennium, titles from that time period were parading themes of madness or possession, misery, violence, culminating into feelings of helplessness ...
The Magic Island is a book by American explorer and traveler William Seabrook.First published in 1929 by Harcourt, Brace & Company, The Magic Island is an account of Seabrook's experiences with Haitian Vodou in Haiti, and is considered the first popular English-language work to describe the concept of a zombie, [2] [3] defined by Seabrook as "a soulless human corpse, still dead, but taken from ...
Trouillot was the author and co-author of a number of books. [10] As an activist and undergraduate, he published the first nonfiction book in Haitian Creole in 1977, Ti difé boulé sou istwa Ayiti (A Small Fire Burning on Haitian History), which sheds knowledge and offers new interpretations of Haitian history. [2]
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [2] The magazine's offices are located near Times Square in New York City.
What Storm, What Thunder is a novel written by Myriam J. A. Chancy, a Haitian-Canadian-American writer. Inspired to tell the unheard stories of the 2010 Haiti earthquake catastrophe that plagued the lives of an entire island and killed hundreds of thousands of people, she demonstrates different perspectives of this unexpected event. [6]
The book follows these characters as they deal with the loss, separation and trauma resulting from Haiti's colonial history, the mass killings of Haitians during the Parsley Massacre in 1937 and the oppression of the Duvalier regime. The epilogue ties the stories together through the narrator's reflections that every Haitian woman's story is ...
Haitian-Americans have been taking advantage of digital technologies and developments since they became available; for example, the employment of radio shows, such as Radyo Lekòl (or School Radio), to talk about Haitian life in an American context. [25] In more recent times, however, Haitian Americans have taken to the internet as a forum. [26]