Dedication Acknowledgments 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 Chapter One: First Publications Toussaint Louverture's Memoir: A Profile in Racialized Anxiety Prefacing and Appending Toussaint's Memoir: Exposing the Black Male Body and Diverting Blackness Isaac Louverture's Memoir: A Representation of Black Masculinity in the Name of the Father Reading and Writing the Father Re-Reading and Re-Writing the Father Validating Black Masculinity in the Notes Chapter Two: The Louvertures and the Evolution of Memoir Writing in France: Personalizing the Historical/Historicizing the Personal Personalizing the Historical: Revealing Truth in the First Person Historicizing the Personal: Demonstrating Truth in the Third Person A Louverturian "Family Romance" Chapter Three: Remembered Injustices: A Memory of History/The Fiction of Memory Father and Son: Between History and Memory The Coloring of Memory: The Psychical and Social Construction of Remembering Toussaint Mis-Remembers: Is There a Constitution in this Text? Isaac Remembers Napoleon but Mis-Remembers His Brother From Counter-History to Fictionalization All of Saint-Domingue is a Stage: Toussaint Louverture, Dramaturge From the Dramatic to the Lyrical: Isaac Louverture, Poet Chapter Four: Toussaint's Constitution: Power, Memoir Writing, and the Making of Black Manhood From Constitution to Memoir: A Diagram of Masculine Justice Power, Race, and Masculine Self-Actualization in the Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture Chapter Five: The Fact of Blackness/The Fiction of Masculinity: Toward Narratives of Mourning and Melancholia Psychoanalysis: Race, Nation, and Masculine Identity The Louvertures : Resisting Whiteness/Desiring Whiteness The Fact of Blackness/The Fiction of Masculinity: The Body of the Father Like Father, Like Son: Desiring Whiteness/Resisting Whiteness Mourning Becomes the Black Male Subject Toussaint's Disconsolation/Isaac's Loss Postscript: The Louvertures, Haiti, and a Diasporic Tradition of Writing the Masculine Self Appendix: "Le jour de la paix" (Isaac Louverture) Works Cited About the Author
