Blacktino Queer Performance
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of
What’s Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers?: Paul Outlaw’s Berserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness
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Published:June 2016
Charles I. Nero, 2016. "What’s Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers?: Paul Outlaw’s Berserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness", Blacktino Queer Performance, E. Patrick Johnson, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
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In this chapter, Charles I. Nero examines Paul Outlaw’s Berserker. He reflects on Outlaw’s choice to juxtapose Nat Turner, a slave rebel who murdered whites in order to escape chattel slavery, with Jeffrey Dahmer, a person who murdered African American and Asian-descended men for sport. He ultimately contends that the former and the latter embody a quintessential American masculinity for Outlaw and provide an opportunity to mediate on the politics of interracial desire.
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