William Styron's Nat Turner
Subtitle: ten black writers respond
By: edited by John Henrik Clarke.
Contributors: Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Styron, William, 1925-; Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- In literature; Biographical fiction, American -- History and criticism; Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Literature and the insurrection; African Americans in literature; Confession in literature; Slavery in literature; Virginia -- In literature
Description: Ten black writers review and criticize Styron's book, which they call a distortion of Nat Turner's character, in this response which includes the text of the original confessions.
Notes: Appendix (p. [98]-117): The text of The confessions of Nat Turner.