How Long to Read The Return of Nat Turner

How Long Does it Take to Read The Return of Nat Turner?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 2 minutes to read The Return of Nat Turner by Albert E. Stone

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nat Turner is a powerful symbol in the cultural memory of America. Prophet, rebel, and leader of the bloodiest slave insurrection in American history, Turner has fascinated and influenced historians and fiction writers alike. In The Return of Nat Turner, primarily a cultural study of sixties America, Albert E. Stone presents a comprehensive history of the various representations of the violent or rebellious slave in American culture and examines the Nat Turner rebellion as both historical fact and cultural narrative. Beginning with Thomas R. Gray's 1831 pamphlet The Confessions of Nat Turner (published the same year as the Southampton, Virginia, slave revolt), Stone evaluates representations of Turner by such influential historians as Eugene Genovese, Kenneth Stampp, and John Hope Franklin, and in various works of fiction including Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder (1936), Daniel Panger's Ol' Prophet Nat (1967), and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986). But for Stone, the most crucial revival of Nat Turner's legend is William Styron's 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, the controversial book largely responsible for Turner's "return" in the sixties. This fictional account of the rebellion became the decade's storm center of debate by focusing on sensitive social and ideological questions about American culture--questions pertaining to slavery and racism, violence and revolution, religion, sex, personal identity, and heroism. The Return of Nat Turner is the first study to situate Styron's novel at the center of a large, complex, and significant web of cultural imaginings. Nat Turner still symbolizes for many Americans the issues and values that divided us in the tumultuous sixtiesand continue to create dissension in the nineties.

How long is The Return of Nat Turner?

The Return of Nat Turner by Albert E. Stone is 468 pages long, and a total of 120,744 words.

This makes it 158% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Return of Nat Turner Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 59 minutes to read The Return of Nat Turner aloud.

What Reading Level is The Return of Nat Turner?

The Return of Nat Turner is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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