Haiti and the United States
National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
Authors: Dash, J. Michael
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- About this book
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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.
- Reviews
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'Dash's book is a sophisticated and fascinating critical study of the clash of cultures illuminating many of the political positions taken by each country at crucial stages of history.' - David Nicholls, Times Higher Education Supplement
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Through the Eyes of the Other: Stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century
Pages 1-21
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Through the Looking Glass: Textual Politics and the American Occupation
Pages 22-44
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Dreaming the Same Dream: Harlem, Haiti and Racial Solidarity
Pages 45-72
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Passionate Apologists: Haiti and the Unitea States in the Post-Occupation Years
Pages 73-100
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The Art of Darkness: Writing in the Duvalier Years
Pages 101-134
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Haiti and the United States
- Book Subtitle
- National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
- Authors
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- J. Michael Dash
- Copyright
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights only for USA, Canada. dual edition
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-25219-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-349-25219-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-68017-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-312-16490-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-68018-6
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 182
- Topics
