The Reversal of Power Relations in "Dessa Rose"

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Postmodern Neo-Slave Narratives, language: English, abstract: 1 Introduction In literary criticism Sherley Anne Williams’ novel Dessa Rose is often argued to be “a story of a woman’s triumph in a (white) man’s world” (Beaulieu 40) and the “story of a woman’s passage from slav...