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The memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture : representing the Black in narratives of mourning and loss

Title: The memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture : representing the Black in narratives of mourning and loss / Arthur F. Saint-Aubin.
Author: Saint-Aubin, Arthur Flannigan
Publication: Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015]

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Description

xxxiii, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book analyzes the only political memoirs written by Toussaint Louverture, a former slave and leader of the Haitian Revolution, and his son, Isaac Louverture"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

New directions in Africana studies

Uniform Title

New directions in Africana studies.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: Father of a nation/father of sons; A father's son/A son of the nation; Authors of memoirs -- Manuscripts : the production of meaning and the performance of masculinity -- Chronology -- First publications -- The Louvertures and the evolution of memoir writing in France : personalizing the historical/historicizing the personal -- 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: "Le jour de la paix" (Isaac Louverture).

Call Number

Sc E 15-1502

ISBN

9781611461954
1611461952
9781611461978 (paper : alkaline paper)
1611461979 (paper : alkaline paper)
9781611461961 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015015202

OCLC

906121829

Author

Saint-Aubin, Arthur Flannigan, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New directions in Africana studies

New directions in Africana studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-1502

JFE 16-1223

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