Silencing the past : power and the production of history / Michel-Rolph Trouillot.

By: Publication details: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015]Edition: [New edition] / with a new foreword by Hazel V. CarbyDescription: xxiii, 190 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807080535 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • D16.9 .T85 2015
Summary: 'Silencing the Past' analyses the silences in our historical narratives, what is left out and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power.
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Previous edition: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Silencing the Past' analyses the silences in our historical narratives, what is left out and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power.

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