Michel rolph trouillot biography examples list

Jump to navigation. On July 5, , the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He was Trouillot leaves behind a rich body of work striking in its compelling prose, intellectual sophistication, theoretical rigor, and disciplinary innovation.

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Although an anthropologist by training and professional appointment, he produced both academic and non-academic texts about Haiti, an ethnography and transnational study of the Dominican banana industry, and a book about the politics of historiography, as well as a number of songs and literary texts. Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins Press.

As he explains in Global Transformations , he viewed academic work as more than a simple search for facts. It is the knowledge that I want to produce. His father, Ernest Trouillot, a lawyer and professor at a prestigious lycee , hosted a television show about Haitian history. All the other Trouillot siblings Lyonel, Evelyne, and Jocelyne have become important novelists, essayists, scholars, and educators who blur intellectual traditions and genres, suggesting that it was not only history and politics that sat at the dinner table, but also literature, music, and art.

But his life was also profoundly marked by the personal experience of immigration and exile. Shortly after completing his BAC II in philosophy in , Trouillot left Haiti as part of a large wave of student activists who fled the political repression of the Duvalier regime.