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Haiti and the United States
J. Michael Dash
其他書名
National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination
出版Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996-12-11
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / 19th CenturyLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN03336801709780333680179
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QN-8QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.