Williams, Sherley Anne
Tags: WILLIAMS, Sherley Anne, 1944-1999; AFRICAN American women novelists; AFRICAN American women poets; AFRICAN American women authors; SHORT stories; DESSA Rose (Book)
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- Youngblood, Shay. // Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction;2005, p233
An encyclopedia entry for African American novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet Shay Youngblood is presented. She received the Pushcart Prize for her short story "Born With Religion." Some of the issues tackled in Youngblood's fiction include definitions of family, motherhood and...
- Dessa Rose (Book). // New Yorker;9/8/86, Vol. 62 Issue 29, p136
Reviews the book "Dessa Rose," by Sherley Anne Williams.
- `I made the ink': (Literary) production and reproduction in `Dessa Rose' and `Beloved.' Goldman, Anne E. // Feminist Studies;Summer90, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p313
Discusses literary production and reproduction as seen in the two books "Dessa Rose," by Sherley Anne Williams and "Beloved," by Toni Morrison. Book as a foreground of the struggle of the freed black woman to achieve self-definition; Gap between mainstream critical theories and modern literary...
- Petry, Ann Lane. // Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction;2005, p186
An encyclopedia entry about novelist, poet and short-story author Ann Lane Petry is presented. She became a popular figure of twentieth-century African American literature on the basis of her novel, "The Street." She had been writing since the early 1930s with books such as "Country Place" and...
- SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS. Jordan, Shirley M. // Broken Silences;1993, p285
An interview with African American novelist and poet Sherley Anne Williams is presented. She explains that realism determines the institution of slavery which give black and white women the chance to interact. Williams stresses that the basis on which black and white women, despite all things,...
- Kincaid, Jamaica. // Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction;2005, p144
An encyclopedia entry about African American novelist and short story writer Jamaica Kincaid is presented. Kincaid's artistic inspirations and models are French author Alain Robbe-Grillet and the French film "La Jetée." The common themes in Kincaid's novels and short stories include conflicts...
- Dessa's Blues: Reimagining the Master's Narrative in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose. SELIGER, MARY A. // Western Journal of Black Studies;Winter2012, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p314
This paper contributes to the scholarship on Dessa Rose by examining Sherley Anne Williams's 1986 novel in concert with the 1857 Supreme Court opinion, Dred Scott v. Sandford. I argue that the law generated by majority Supreme Court opinions such as Dred Scott, operates as an enforceable and...
- "I KILL WHITE MENS ... CAUSE I CAN": THE REWRITING OF LIBERATION AND MASTERY IN DESSA ROSE. Burns, Phyllis Lynne // Criticism;Winter2013, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p119
The article presents literary criticism of the book "Dessa Rose" by Sherley Anne Williams. It explores the relationship between race, gender, and freedom in the novel. According to the author, the book critiques Black male authors' conception of liberation as a form of power attainable through...
- `In the Meantime'--here's Iyanla. Rogers // New York Amsterdam News;10/14/99, Vol. 90 Issue 42, p24
Features Afro-American woman author, motivational speaker, poet and self-help advocate Iyanla Vanzant. Display of abilities during an interview with HBO host Chris Rock; Authorship of `In the Meantime'; Recording of the gospel album `In the Meantime, the Music That Tells the Story' with Harmony...
