Given that my TBR has overflowed the space available, and in a bid to avoid being squashed by a falling tower of books, posting pictures of books I want for a month on here. July 10th, I review. And possibly get out the cc.
This book was written about by an academic, Prof Gurminder K Bhambra, as a book they return to, on the politics of remembrance (around the revolution in Haiti). Want.
(This is the plan, at least)
#MonthofBookDeferral
so-soI read this book for a course in the philosophy of history. It was interesting, especially the personal stories and the narratives Trouillot begins each chapter with, but I found it a bit scattered at times. It used examples of the Haitian Revolution and celebrations of Columbus‘s arrival in the Americas to discuss the relations between power & history and the present & the past.
6/10
The value of a historical product cannot be debated without taking into account both the context of its production and the context of its consumption
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History | 
