Chapter Notes: Haitian History: New Perspectives (Sepinwall, ed., 2012) Source file: sepinwall haitian history new perspectives

Chapter Notes: Haitian History: New Perspectives (Sepinwall, ed., 2012) Source file: sepinwall haitian history new perspectives Editor's Introduction: "Writing Haitian History" Sepinwall's framing question: Why has Haiti been so marginalized in world history textbooks and scholarship, and what new approaches are correcting this? The silencing thesis and its complication: Sepinwall opens with trouillot silencing past — the claim that the Haitian Revolution was rendered "unthinkable" and then forgotten. But she immediately notes that recent scholarship has complicated this: the revolution was in fact extensively discussed at the time (Ferrer, White, Scott) and a new generation of scholarship is recovering it.