Understanding August Wilson
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Understanding August Wilson
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Author : Mary L. Bogumil
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1999
Understanding August Wilson written by Mary L. Bogumil and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this critical study Mary L. Bogumil argues that Wilson gives voice to disfranchised and marginalized African Americans who have been promised a place and a stake in the American dream but find access to the rights and freedoms promised to all Americans difficult. The author maintains that Wilson not only portrays African Americans and the predicaments of American life but also sheds light on the atavistic connection African Americans have to their African ancestors.
Approaches To Teaching The Plays Of August Wilson
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Author : Sandra G. Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Approaches To Teaching The Plays Of August Wilson written by Sandra G. Shannon and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like Aristotle and Shakespeare. As they portray black Americans living through migration, industrialization, and war, Wilson's plays explore the relation between a unified black consciousness and America's collective identity. In part 1 of this volume, "Materials," the editors survey sources on Wilson's biography, teachable texts of Wilson's plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," look at a diverse set of issues in Wilson's work, including the importance of blues and jazz, intertextual connections to other playwrights, race in performance, Yoruban spirituality, and the role of women in the plays.
The Cambridge Companion To August Wilson
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Author : Christopher Bigsby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-29
The Cambridge Companion To August Wilson written by Christopher Bigsby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-29 with Drama categories.
One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own future, aware of their roots in another time and place, but doing something more than just survive. Wilson deliberately addressed black America, but in doing so discovered an international audience. Alongside chapters addressing Wilson's life and career, and the wider context of his plays, this Companion dedicates individual chapters to each play in his ten-play cycle, which are ordered chronologically, demonstrating Wilson's notion of an unfolding history of the twentieth century.
August Wilson
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-03-10
August Wilson written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a self-educated Pittsburgh ghetto native can grow into a revered conduit for a century of black achievement. He forced readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century. This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies and themes from the work of one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources along with generous citations; each concludes with a selected bibliography on such relevant subjects as the blues, Malcolm X, irony, roosters, and Gothic mode. Charts elucidate the genealogies of Wilson's characters, the Charles, Hedley, and Maxson families, and account for weaknesses in Wilson's female characters. Two appendices complete the generously cross-referenced work: a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of 40 topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis.
A Study Guide For August Wilson S Joe Turner S Come And Gone
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2003
A Study Guide For August Wilson S Joe Turner S Come And Gone written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
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.
A Study Guide For August Wilson S Two Trains Running
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2007
A Study Guide For August Wilson S Two Trains Running written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for August Wilson's "Two Trains Running," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
The Past As Present In The Drama Of August Wilson
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Author : Harry Justin 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 Justin 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).
Gale Researcher Guide For August Wilson Performing The African American Historical Cycle
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Author : Mary L. Bogumil
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date :
Gale Researcher Guide For August Wilson Performing The African American Historical Cycle written by Mary L. Bogumil and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Study Aids categories.
Gale Researcher Guide for: August Wilson: Performing the African American Historical Cycle is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
August Wilson And Black Aesthetics
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Author : S. Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-08-20
August Wilson And Black Aesthetics written by S. Shannon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-20 with History categories.
This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005.