Books Like The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Books Like The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Confessions of Nat Turner.
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The collection of critical essays Ten Black Writers Respond (1968) is invaluable in a consideration of the rage and outrage that greeted Styron's novel from black critics in the 1960s. The fiery rhetoric of the essays often undercuts the critical positions of them, but a systematic review of many of the most substantial charges — the role of Turner's wife, the nature of the revolt and of the heroic leader in charge of it, the elimination of any positive black values from Turner's family, the attitudes toward both the system itself and the individual slaves within it — helps to generate many interesting approaches, however doubtful, to the novel.

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