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William Styron's Nat Turner, ten black writers respond. / Edited by John Henrik Clarke.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998, editor.
- Series:
- Beacon paperbacks ; BP 304.
- Beacon paperback ; BP304
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Styron, William, 1925-2006. Confessions of Nat Turner.
- Styron, William.
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831--In literature.
- Turner, Nat.
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
- Biographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Biographical fiction, American.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831--In literature.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Virginia--In literature.
- Virginia.
- Confession in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Silver, Helen (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Silver, Joe (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 120 pages : facsimile ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Beacon Press, 1968.
- Contents:
- Nat's last white man / by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- The confessions of Nat Turner and the dilemma of William Styron / by Alvin F. Poussaint
- You've taken my Nat and gone / by Vincent Harding
- The confessions of William Styron / by John Oliver Killens
- The manipulation of history and of fact : an ex-Southerner's apologist tract for slavery and the life of Nat Turner ; or, William Styron's faked confessions / by John A. Williams
- The failure of William Styron / by Ernest Kaiser
- William Styron's Nat Turner : rogue-nigger / by Loyle Hairston
- Our Nat Turner and William Styron's creation / by Charles V. Hamilton
- Back with the wind : Mr. Styron and the Reverend Turner / by Mike Thelwell.
- Notes:
- "Because there were no major Black reviews of William Styron's 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' ten Black writers respond"--Cover.
- Appendix (pages 93-117): The Text of The Confessions of Nat Turner ... as reported by Thomas R. Gray (1831).
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Ex Libris Helen + Joe Silver" on front pastedown.
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paperback "Second printing, August 1968".
- Contains:
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831. Confessions of Nat Turner.
- OCLC:
- 292310
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