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August Wilson
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
August Wilson written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Discussion and criticism of Ma Rainey's black bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's come and gone and Two trains running.
Conversations With August Wilson
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Conversations With August Wilson written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.
August Wilson
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Author : Yvonne Shafer
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1998-01-26
August Wilson written by Yvonne Shafer and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides information on the work of a black American playwright, best known for his play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Offers plot summaries and critical overviews of six plays written between 1984 and 1996, and contains a chronology, an overview of his life and career, and a list of productions and credits. Also includes an annotated bibliography of Wilson's dramatic publications as well as articles and interviews about him, and an annotated secondary bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The Past As Present In The Drama Of August Wilson
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Author : Harry J. Elam
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-05-21
The Past As Present In The Drama Of August Wilson written by Harry J. Elam and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).
August Wilson
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Author : Peter Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1999
August Wilson written by Peter Wolfe and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans in literature categories.
The African-American dramatist August Wilson, who was born in a Pittsburgh slum in 1945, saw the first professional productions of his plays in 1981 and 1982, in little theaters in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Pittsburgh. He had also begun sending his plays to the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, which sponsors workshops to develop the talents of young American playwrights. The Connecticut-based conference eventually accepted a work-in-progress, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (staged in 1984), and from that moment Wilson's career took off like, to use the title of his 1992 play, Two Trains Running. With Ma Rainey, Wilson began a ten-play cycle dramatizing different decades in the history of African Americans in the twentieth century. The other works in the still unfinished cycle include: Fences (staged in 1985), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (staged in 1986), The Piano Lesson (staged in 1990), Two Trains Running (staged in 1992), and Seven Guitars (staged in 1996).
August Wilson
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Author : Marilyn Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-23
August Wilson written by Marilyn Elkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Performing Arts categories.
The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume provides a thorough introduction to his body of work.
August Wilson S Fences
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Author : Ladrica Menson-Furr
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-06-06
August Wilson S Fences written by Ladrica Menson-Furr and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and this play helped to earn him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "the African American Shakespeare."
August Wilson
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Author : Alan Nadel
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2010-05-16
August Wilson written by Alan Nadel and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-16 with Drama categories.
Contributors to this collection of 15 essays are academics in English, theater, and African American studies. They focus on the second half of Wilson's century cycle of plays, examining each play within the larger context of the cycle and highlighting themes within and across particular plays. Some topics discussed include business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean, contesting black male responsibilities in Jitney, the holyistic blues of Seven Guitars, violence as history lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II, and ritual death and Wilson's female Christ. The book offers an index of plays, critics, and theorists, but not a subject index. Nadel is chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky.
August Wilson And The African American Odyssey
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Author : Kim Pereira
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1995
August Wilson And The African American Odyssey written by Kim Pereira and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.
The Dramatic Vision Of August Wilson
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Author : Sandra Garrett Shannon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Dramatic Vision Of August Wilson written by Sandra Garrett Shannon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
"In The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson, Sandra Shannon follows the playwright's path through each decade. From the outset, she considers how he uses poetry, the blues, Romare Bearden's art, and other cultural artifacts to lead him to imagined sites of pain and resignation, healing and renewal in the collective memory of black America. It is in these places of defeat and victory, Shannon demonstrates, that Wilson creates drama, as he excavates, examines, and reclaims the past. Although Wilson diverts attention away from factual details and focuses on the human costs of family dislocation, chronic unemployment, or cultural alienation, Shannon illustrates how fully the plays are grounded in credible historical contexts - from slavery and Emancipation to the aftermath of World War II, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War. Moreover, she identifies and analyzes the themes that recur in some plays and branch off in new directions in others - including the dislocations that attended black migration to the North and communication gaps between black men and women. As she examines each of the plays in Wilson's dramatic history of the African American experience, Shannon conveys the broad range of his dramatic vision."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved