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

by Don Willis and J. Michael Dash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312164904
• ISBN13: 9780312164904
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"