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...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...

...Abigail Cheever Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood Abigail Cheever ecounting the circumstances that led to Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron claims he decided to write his...

... makes the mistake of catching the doctor’s attention. He has murmured that he would like to get her into bed; she blurts out in German that she is Polish, not Jewish, nor are her children Jewish. Stingo, the narrator of William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice, asks, “Why...

...). (As this language suggests, Percy’s account of medical- ization intersects somewhat jarringly with midcentury accounts of racial identity.) Cheever next positions William Styron’s Darkness Visible and Elizabeth Wurzel’s Prozac Nation as ripostes to the view that medication (and medicalization) robs us...

...-486 120 Index Stein, Gertrude. See Olson Stewart, Jack. “A ‘Need of Distance and Blue’: Space, Color, and Creativity in To the Lighthouse." 46.1 (2000): 78-99 Styron, William. See Carstens Su, John J. “Epic of Failure: Disappointment as Utopian Fantasy in Midnight’s Children...

... of historical recovery that contemporary neo-slave narratives “intrude upon history as a means to re-form it, . . . revitalizing the historiography of slavery” in the process. With origins in the Black Power era and the controversy over William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), these texts enter...

... . Ellison Ralph . 2010 . Three Days before the Shooting … . Edited by Callahan John F. Bradley Adam . New York : Modern Library . Ellison Ralph Styron William Warren Robert Penn Woodward C. Vann . 1969 . “ The Uses of History in Fiction .” Southern Literary Journal...

...: Knopf, 1963.242-90. . “Ralph Ellison.” Interviews with Black Writers. Ed. John O’Brien. New York: Liveright, 1973. 63—77. Ellison, Ralph, William Styron, Robert Penn Warren, and C. Vann Woodward. “The Uses of History in Fiction.” Southern Literary Journal 1.2 (Spring 1969): 57...