Abstract
The article explores the role of Paris as a site of dialogue and exchange in the posthumous freighting of the emblematic figure of the francophone Black Atlantic, Toussaint Louverture. By incarcerating his rival in Joux, Napoleon had attempted to ensure that Toussaint was kept as far away as possible from the French capital, yet the importance of the Haitian revolution in the formation of French republican identity remains indisputable; Toussaint’s presence in France symbolized his problematization of the transatlantic axes linking France to its (soon to be former) colony. The article explores the subsequent role of Toussaint – in the work of authors such as Cesaire, Glissant, James and Auguste Nemours – in the formation of a certain understanding of twentieth-century Black Paris. It accordingly considers the ways in which representations of Toussaint Louverture encapsulate the complex affiliations on which the construction of Black Paris depends.
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