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Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
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The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism.
At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire.
Author: Mary A. Renda
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/18/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.14w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780807849385
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2001 pg. 86
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 942
At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire.
Author: Mary A. Renda
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/18/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.14w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780807849385
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2001 pg. 86
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 942
About the Author
Mary A. Renda is associate professor of history and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College.
