Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) Source Information

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) Source Information Author: Michel-Rolph Trouillot Full Title: Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History Publisher: Beacon Press Year: 1995 Edition in Use: 20th anniversary edition with foreword by Hazel V. Carby (2015) Type: Secondary Source - Historiography, Historical Method, and the Haitian Revolution as World-Historical Problem Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: trouillot silencing past.txt Status Text extracted: Yes - trouillot silencing past.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) - historiography and archive-method pass focused on the four moments of silencing, Sans Souci, and revolutionary unthinkability Chapter notes: trouillot ch notes Graph review in this pass: Strengthened why do some stories get told and others erased?, moc historiography, and moc sources Overview Trouillot remains the vault's central source for understanding how power enters history not only through events but through the making of sources, archives, narratives, and retrospective importance. Haiti is his most famous case because the Haitian Revolution was, in his formulation, "unthinkable" within the dominant Western worldview even as it unfolded.