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Dessa Rose

by Sherley Anne Williams · 1986

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Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sherley Anne Williams' critically acclaimed and unforgettable Dessa Rose is a novel of two powerfully conceived female protagonists forging a vital friendship in the face of racial divides in the antebellum South.

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American Civil WarAmerican Civil WarMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisraceraceMore like thisLess of thisslaveryslaveryMore like thisLess of thisdiversitydiversityMore like thisLess of thisfeminismfeminismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
civil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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