Isaac Louverture's mémoires: a nineteenth-century representation of black masculinity in the name of the father.
Isaac Louverture’s 1818 memoir, when read in tandem with the memoir (1802) of his father, Toussaint Louverture, offers a nuanced representation of black masculine subjectivity and agency—one that elegizes his father’s legacy while simultaneously rewriting an episode from his father’s narrative. Within the context of the events in Saint-Domingue prior to independence, the son’s memoir suggests the possibility of a different dynamic between black and white men in part by calling into question his father’s account of the latter’s relationship to Napoleon and Saint-Domingue’s relation to France.
Arthur F
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Saint-Aubin
D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history; D003466:Cultural Characteristics / Q000266:history; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D057228:Masculinity / Q000266:history; D008568:Memory; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D011822:Race Relations / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D013561:Symbolism