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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.
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.
William Styron, Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard (2006) Margaret Walker, Jubilee (1966) Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose (1986) Évelyne Trouillot, The Infamous Rosalie (2003) Manu Herbstein, Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001) Manu Herbstein, Brave Music of a Distant Drum (2011)
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.
Nathaniel Jones, grandson of Nat D. Williams, and Steve Turner, Williams’ great grandson, pose for a photo pointing to the sign during the Nat D. Williams street naming ceremony outside Booker T ...
Shirley Jane Turner (28 January 1961 – 18 August 2003) was a Canadian-American daughter of a U.S. serviceman and local woman from St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. She was raised with three siblings in Wichita, Kansas , but moved to Newfoundland with her mother after her parents separated ; the parents later divorced.
Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber, and Joe Cole are set to lead the limited drama series “A Small Light” at Disney Plus, Variety has learned. The eight-episode National Geographic series tells the ...
Their relationship may have been, um, cut short, but Jodie Turner-Smith’s Anne Boleyn and Mark Stanley’s Henry VIII look pretty cosy in the first image of the pair from the upcoming Channel 5 ...