Lyonel Trouillot, or The Fictions of Formal Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4195845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Hallward (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 174-185 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-2009-038 |
| OpenAlex | W2111656524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in 2000, with a massive parliamentary majority. My book Damming the Flood (2007) tried to explain how and why his government overthrown, several years later, in an internationally-sponsored coup-d'état. Novelist Lyonel Trouillot helped prepare the ground for this coup by deriding Aristide as a corrupt and brutal dictator with no popular support, and in his contribution to this Small Axe forum he dismisses Damming the Flood as racist and dishonest propaganda. My response to Trouillot aims to refute these accusations, and to demonstrate that Trouillot's apparent commitment to `formal democracy' is a contradiction in terms
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2013 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |