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Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, jazz poet, playwright and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community.
Hodgkins, John (2013). "Inventing Nat Turner: Charles Burnett and the Postmodern History Film". The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 105– 136. ISBN 978-1-62356-070-6. Peary, Gerald (2011). "Set This House on Fire: Nat Turner's Second Coming". In Kapsis, Robert E. (ed.). Charles Burnett ...
Dessa Rose was written as a response to William Styron's 1968 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner. The white man assuming the voice of an African-American man enraged the black community. In Dessa Rose, the author Sherley Anne Williams, a black woman, takes the voice of a white woman.
Dessa Rose is a musical based on the novel of the same name by Sherley Anne Williams with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty.It tells the story of a young black woman and a young white woman and their journey to acceptance in 1847 in the ante-bellum South, as they tell their story to their grandchildren.
It is based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. The film stars Parker as Turner, with Armie Hammer , Mark Boone Jr. , Colman Domingo , Aunjanue Ellis , Dwight Henry , Aja Naomi King , Esther Scott , Roger Guenveur Smith , Gabrielle Union , Penelope Ann Miller , and ...
Mrs. Winterbourne is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, and Brendan Fraser.It is loosely based on Cornell Woolrich's novel I Married a Dead Man, which had already been filmed in Hollywood as No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck, in Hindi as Kati Patang (1970) starring Asha Parekh, and in French as J'ai épousé une ombre (1983).
As her health deteriorates, Anne's son, Edward, and two daughters, Sophie and Jessica, struggle to reach a consensus over their mother's intentions to end her life in an assisted dying facility in Switzerland (where this is legal) and while they search for alternative options, silent recriminations and stubborn practicality threaten to tear the ...
"The Nat Turner Case", review of William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond, The New York Review of Books, 11.4 (September 12, 1968). Mellard, James M. "This Unquiet Dust: The Problem of History in Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner", Mississippi Quarterly, 36.4 (Fall 1983), pp. 525–43. Ryan, Tim A.