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Henderson, Mae G. "(W)riting The Work and Working the Rites." Black American Literature Forum 23, No. 4 (Winter 1989): 631-60.
Discusses Williams's story "Meditations on History," noting its focus on discourse and relationship to William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. "Meditations of History" was later expanded into Dessa Rose.
Inscoe, John C. "Slave Rebellion in the First Person: The Literary Confessions of Nat Turner and Dessa Rose." The Virginia Magazine of...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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