... 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...

... empiricism rationalism slavery Nat Turner Martin Delany ...

... Nat Turner Jeffrey Dahmer American masculinity racial violence interracial desire ...

... David Margrette Black/Africana hermeneutics retaliation narratives Nat Turner Frederick Douglass ...

... redeployment of the Exodus story utilizes symbols, blood, and wilderness to depict retaliation. This symbolic pattern is also identified in the narratives of Nat Turner and Fredrick Douglass. Though Turner and Douglass explicitly disavow conjure, their narratives utilize biblical symbols to allegorize...

... and religion in the early nineteenth century. It then turns to fascinating moments in The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) and Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859), where rationalist theories of mind come to the fore. It considers how black women’s antebellum manuscript cultures challenge...

...Part VIII 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...

... and nominally free people in the age of slavery. It begins with the complicated status of reason amid transformations in science and religion in the early nineteenth century. It then turns to fascinating moments in The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) and Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859...