Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012)
Autor de Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Sobre El Autor
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) was one of the most prominent Haitian scholars working in the United States. He was the director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History and Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Hazel V. mostrar más Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, professor of American studies, and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization at Yale University. mostrar menos
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- Nombre canónico
- Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2012-07-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Haiti
- País (para mapa)
- Haiti
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Haiti
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Educación
- City University of New York (BS|History)
Johns Hopkins (PhD|Anthropology) - Ocupaciones
- Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago
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Those four stages are the moments when decisions are made, intentionally or otherwise, that affect what we come to perceive as history: at the time original records are (or are not) created; at the time those records are selected for retention; at the time they are retrieved and put into a narrative; and at the time that narrative is evaluated for significance. Omissions ("silences") at any point can alter our interpretation of past events.
Silences result not just from disdain or prejudice, but from the fact that the reality is "unthinkable" to the recorder/archiver/narrative developer/evaluator. The Haitian revolution of 1791-1804 provides a vivid example: that the slaves could have, on their own, desired, organized and successfully concluded their own revolutionary war was an idea inconceivable by the French or most others interpreting the record. This section brought to mind a book I read not long ago, [b:Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia|40536236|Sea People The Puzzle of Polynesia|Christina Thompson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1542039373l/40536236._SY75_.jpg|19226650]. The reality of how the South Pacific was colonized remained unknown (at least outside Polynesian oral history) for hundreds of years because Europeans simply couldn't accept that the Polynesian outriggers could have travelled the distances it has since been proved that they can.
The book is a brilliant framework, illustrating the inherent reasons that the true histories of blacks, women, native populations, and others have been omitted from history. Since we continue to struggle with the ways in which these perceptions mold actions and opinions in the 21st century these are ideas that bear thinking about.… (más)