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Title	:	The Confessions of Nat Turner
Author	:	William Styron
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 453 pages
Published	:	November 10th 1992 by Vintage (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Cultural. African American. Novels

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

Paperback | Pages: 453 pages

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.

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Original Title:	The Confessions of Nat Turner
ISBN:	0679736638 (ISBN13: 9780679736639)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Virginia,1831(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1968), William Dean Howells Medal (1970), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1968)

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This book caused quite a controversy when it came out in 1967, and judging from some of the reviews here and on Amazon, it's continuing to do so. I didn't know about any of that when I started it, but the more I read the novel, the more dissatisfying and even irresponsible it started to seem.Some have traced the outcry which followed its release to the simple fact that a white Virginian author was writing his way into the mind of a 19th century black slave, but that is hardly the issue. The book

This novel puts an agonizing face on the institution of slavery and explains, from Nat Turner's perspective, the 1831 slave revolt in southeastern Virginia. I've found it hard to get this book out of my mind.

Much has been made of this book, with criticism ranging from the extreme charge of racism to the milder implication that Styron, as a white man, could not capture Nat Turner's "blackness" the way a black writer could have. I don't wish to address this book within the context of these controversies. Styron may not have been able to capture Turner's blackness the way a black writer could have (as an Asian-American woman myself I will never know), but he did capture Turner the man in a way only a



Reading Road Trip 2020Current location: VirginiaHow can a man be allowed to feel such emptiness and defeat?I'm starting to realize that the people I attract in real life are the same types I seek out in literature: the broken people who can be honest about their brokenness, maybe laugh a little about it, too. It's not that I want to be broken, or delight in my tribe of broken members; it's more about an acceptance, finally, on my part, that the world is full of imperfection and broken parts.

Styron's Nat Turner seems to be awash in controversy which makes me hesitate to throw my opinion onto the pile but what they hey? I thought the book well written. It showed another facet of possible antebellum history. Styron threw in the old chestnut of a black man lusting after a white woman which made my head ache. The book opened up a complex set of moral issues for me. Who would condone murder but then who in their right mind would own another person? To juxtapose this book I'm also reading

By sword and ax and gun you run a swath through this county that will be long remembered. You did, as you say, come damn near to taking your army into this town. And in addition, as I think I told you before, you scared the entire South into a condition that may be described as well-nigh shitless. No niggers ever done anything like this.During my arrogant youth I signed up for a History of Slavery course, you know, so I could marshall evidence against The Man. I went the first day, inspired by