Title The memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture : representing the Black masculine subject in narratives of mourning and loss / Arthur F. Saint-Aubin

Published Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 237 pages) : illustrations Series New Directions in Africana Studies New directions in Africana studies. Contents First publications -- The Louvertures and the evolution of memoir writing in France: historicizing the personal/personalizing the historical -- Remembered injustices: a memory of history/the fiction of memory -- Toussaint's constitution: power, memoir writing, and the making of Black manhood -- The fact of Blackness, the fiction of masculinity: toward narratives of mourning and melancholia -- Postscript: the Louvertures, Haiti, and a diasporic tradition of writing the masculine self Summary This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture-a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution-and the memoir of his son, Isaac Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index Notes Print version record Subject Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture. Louverture, Isaac. Mémoires et notes d'Isaac, fils de Toussaint Louverture sur la même l'expédition et sur la vie de son père. Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 -- Criticism and interpretation Louverture, Isaac -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Louverture, Isaac fast Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 fast Mémoires et notes d'Isaac, fils de Toussaint Louverture sur la même l'expédition et sur la vie de son père (Louverture, Isaac) fast Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture (Toussaint Louverture) fast Subject Autobiography -- Authorship -- History Masculinity in literature. Black people in literature Grief in literature. Loss (Psychology) in literature. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. Autobiography -- Authorship Black people in literature Grief in literature Loss (Psychology) in literature Masculinity in literature SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Sources Subject Haiti Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Sources Form Electronic book ISBN 9781611461961 1611461960

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