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Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination

Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination

Dash, J. Michael

Hardcover

Series: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0333680170
ISBN13: 9780333680179
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Dec 11 1996
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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