Further Reading
- 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 History and Biography, 97, No. 4 (October 1989): 419-36. (Compares and contrasts Dessa Rose with The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron.)
- Rowe, Cyprian Lamar, Review of Give Birth to Brightness, by Sherley Anne Williams, Black World, XXII, No. 8 (June 1973): 89-92. (Positively assesses Williams's analysis of African-American literature.)
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