Volume 11, Number 4 · September 12, 1968
The Nat Turner Case
By Eugene D. Genovese
William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond
by John Henrik Clarke, by Lerone Bennett Jr., by Alvin F. Poussaint, by Vincent Harding, by John Oliver Killens, by John A. Williams, by Ernest Kaiser, by Loyle Hairston, by Charles V. Hamilton, by Mike Thelwell
Beacon Press, 115 pp., (paperback, $1.95) (paper)
The praise given to William Styron's current prize-winning, best-selling novel, The Confession of Nat Turner, has been followed by strong dissent and hostility from many members of the black intelligentsia. Black writers have denounced the novel in essays and public statements; black actors have threatened to boycott the film version. William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond presents the essential points of the attack. It is a book that demands attention not so much because of the questions it raises about Styron's novel as for what it reveals about the thinking of intellectuals in the Black Power movement.
Review, 5513 words
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