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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 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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Haiti and the United States
• Podnázev: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
• Autor: J. Michael Dash
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 182
• EAN: 9780333680179
• ISBN: 0333680170
• ID: 04597435
• Nakladatelství: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Hmotnost: 269 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Datum vydání: 11. December 1996

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