The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture : Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint-Aubin, Arthur F.

Saint-Aubin, Arthur Flannigan., Author.

Series:

New Directions in Africana Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in literature.

Louverture, Isaac--Criticism and interpretation.

Masculinity in literature.

Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743-1803--Criticism and interpretation.

Autobiography--History--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Grief in literature.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Sources.

Haiti.

Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture.

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.

Louverture, Isaac.

Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803--Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Louverture, Isaac--Criticism and interpretation.

Masculinity in literature.

Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743-1803--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Other Title:

New Directions in Africana Studies

Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lehigh University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Title Page; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chronology; First Publications; The Louvertures and the Evolution of Memoir Writing in France; Remembered Injustices; Toussaint's Constitution; The Fact of Blackness, the Fiction of Masculinity; Postscript; Appendix; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61146-196-0

OCLC:

912238412