Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgement: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection

ISBN-13: 9780807122495 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 298 str.

Mary Kemp Davis

Opis

This study offers an analysis of six novels in which Turner figured prominently. All of the novelists, the author argues, derive their fundamental understanding about Turner from Thomas Gray's seminal work, The Confessions of Nat Turner, but they recreate it in their own image.