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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.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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