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Haiti and the United States - National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1997)
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Haiti and the United States - National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1997)
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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.
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