{"product_id":"haiti-and-the-united-states-national-stereotypes-and-the-literary-imagination-0292754272","title":"Haiti and the United States: National Stereotypes and the Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0292754272\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dash, J. Michael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImaginative 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51737699975456,"sku":"NEW0292754272","price":28.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61DoEH2UDjL.jpg?v=1779571483","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/haiti-and-the-united-states-national-stereotypes-and-the-literary-imagination-0292754272","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}