Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
New Directions in Africana Studies |
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New directions in Africana studies.
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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.
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Louverture, Isaac. Mémoires et notes d'Isaac, fils de Toussaint Louverture sur la même l'expédition et sur la vie de son père.
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Louverture, Isaac -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Louverture, Isaac fast |
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 fast |
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Mémoires et notes d'Isaac, fils de Toussaint Louverture sur la même l'expédition et sur la vie de son père (Louverture, Isaac) fast |
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Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture (Toussaint Louverture) fast |
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Autobiography -- Authorship -- History
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Masculinity in literature.
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Black people in literature
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Grief in literature.
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Loss (Psychology) in literature.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Autobiography -- Authorship
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Black people in literature
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Grief in literature
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Loss (Psychology) in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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SUBJECT |
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Sources
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Haiti
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Sources
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781611461961 |
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1611461960 |
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