Duke University Press Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

Product Description This collection of writings from Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot includes his most famous, lesser known, and hard to find writings that demonstrate his enduring importance to Caribbean studies, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and politically engaged scholarship more broadly. Review " Trouillot Remixed is an invaluable collection. One is struck again by the clarity of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's arguments about power and the status of the historical; one is called by his precise attention to what is at stake and the skill with which he connected the intimate and the world, or rather, his multiple commitments 'to both home and the world.' To begin from Trouillot is to reconstitute all, to reimagine all."--Christina Sharpe author of "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" "Michel-Rolph Trouillot produced a distinctive presence in the scholarly worlds of anthropology and Caribbean studies. By the sheer force of his example, he invited us to recognize not only the irreducible complexity of the Caribbean as a horizon of inquiry, but also the intellectual duty to take up the challenge of reinventing the categories through which we apprehend and engage this complexity. Trouillot Remixed offers us a thematically distilled selection of his work that will provoke us to appreciate his contribution in fresh and unexpected ways."--David Scott, Columbia University About the Author Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012) was Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and the author of several books, including Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World and Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Yarimar Bonilla is Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, and Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Greg Beckett is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Western University. Mayanthi L. Fernando is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.