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

SeriesNew directions in Africana studies
Contents Preface -- Chronology -- 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 -- Appendix.
Scope and content "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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015015202
ISBN9781611461954 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN9781611461978 (paper : alkaline paper)

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