Write about the novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron and compare it to the novel Dessa Rose, which was written in response to Styron’s novel.

It should be around 4,400 words, with well-structured chapters and sub-chapters, and uses at least 10 sources.

Write about the novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron and compare it to the novel Dessa Rose, which was written in response to Styron’s novel.

Primary source is “Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Representations of the Southampton Slave Insurrection” by Mary Kemp Davis. Especially, in the Introduction she gives an overview of Nat Turner’s literary reception, and in the Conclusion the general remarks on the novel Dessa Rose in relation to Styron’s book.