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).
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.
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