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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[1] [2] The collection is written mostly from the perspective of different female narrators living in Haiti and in New York City. 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 ...
The book discusses the history, politics, and people of Haiti and refutes perceived misconceptions about Haiti held by Americans. [1] The first part of the book provides an overview of Haitian history from its colonization by the Spanish, the Haitian Revolution, and the presidency of Jean-Pierre Boyer. The second part presents a series of ...
In modern times, for many Black Americans, Watch Night services embody the anxiety of how the new year will separate families through mass incarceration, health disparities, and poverty while also ...
The Haitian Times, an online publication, has covered Haiti and the Haitian diaspora around the world since it was founded in 1999. With a newsroom of about 20 staffers and freelancers, the outlet ...
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]