Haiti and the United States

by Dash, J. Michael

• ISBN13: 9780312164904
• ISBN10: 0312164904
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Through the Eyes of the Other: Stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century	p. 1
Through the Looking Glass: Textual Politics and the American Occupation	p. 22
Dreaming the Same Dream: Harlem, Haiti and Racial Solidarity	p. 45
Passionate Apologists: Haiti and the United States in the Post-Occupation Years	p. 73
The Art of Darkness: Writing in the Duvalier Years	p. 101
Caribbean Overtures	p. 135
Epilogue: The Final Frontier	p. 163
Notes	p. 169
Index	p. 179
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