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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

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Author

Dash, J. Michael

Publisher

Macmillan Press ; St. Martin's Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312164904

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-25