Beyond Trouillot
This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past’s acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic “guild” that Trouillot dec...
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crdukeunivpr:10.1215/07990537-8912823 2024-06-02T08:11:19+00:00 Beyond Trouillot Daut, Marlene L. Kamugisha, Aaron 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912823 http://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article-pdf/25/1%20(64)/132/924772/0250132.pdf en eng Duke University Press Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism volume 25, issue 1, page 132-154 ISSN 0799-0537 1534-6714 journal-article 2021 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912823 2024-05-07T13:16:31Z This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past’s acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic “guild” that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin, and Thomas Madiou produced an immeasurable influence on the direction of historical scholarship across the world. The author argues that the influence of these nineteenth-century Haitian authors can be seen everywhere in social history, especially in the concept of history from below, even though most historians in Europe and the United States have never even heard the names of these other Haitian authors. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Duke University Press Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25 1 132 154 |
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This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past’s acceptance and ascendance within the very North Atlantic “guild” that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin, and Thomas Madiou produced an immeasurable influence on the direction of historical scholarship across the world. The author argues that the influence of these nineteenth-century Haitian authors can be seen everywhere in social history, especially in the concept of history from below, even though most historians in Europe and the United States have never even heard the names of these other Haitian authors. |
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