Haiti and the United States [electronic resource] : National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination / by J. Michael Dash.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781349252190
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/32992
Yazar
Dash, J. Michael.
Basım Bildirimi
2nd ed. 1997.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XVII, 182 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Literature __ Philosophy.
Culture __ Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern __ 19th century.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
International relations.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
International Relations.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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