Michael A Drexler

Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

Based on Leonora Sansay’s eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay’s writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolu...

The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (America and the Long 19th Century)

In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative el...

Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology (Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition)

Until now there has been no single volume in which a broad and comprehensive scope of ethical questions in neuropsychology is discussed. These editors have sought to fill that gap, calling upon leading thinkers in the field of neuropsychology and ethics. Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology af...

Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature (Apercus: Histories, Texts, Cultures)

The starting point for "Beyond Douglass" is an institutional paralysis in the study of Early African-American literature. Over the past decade, literary anthologies have codified this tradition through the exemplary figures of Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Fredrick Douglass....

The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies (Early American Studies)

When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in the western hemisphere. The histories of...

Ethical Issues in Clinical Neuropsychology