Breaking the Silence: The Fugees and The Score1

From: Journal of Haitian Studies | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Lipsitz, George | Copyright information

The thunder I have known, that I have fled with all my soul and now return to, humbled, is nothing more than the light contained in the distant murmurings of an unforgotten land.

-Myriam Chancy2

Michel-Rolph Trouillot argues that "silences are inherent in history."3 Narratives about the past draw their coherence as much from what they omit as from what they include. All histories are partial, perspectival, and interested. They tell unified stories from self-designated points of ...

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