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| Author | : Harold Bloom |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : African Americans in literature |
| ISBN | : 1604133937 |
Presents a brief biography of August Wilson along with extracts of major critical essays, plot summaries, and an index of themes and ideas.
| Author | : Christopher Bigsby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2007-11-29 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1139827995 |
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.
| Author | : Christopher William Edgar Bigsby |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : African Americans in literature |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1410356159 |
A Study Guide for August Wilson's "Radio Golf," 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.
| Author | : Harvey Young |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2023-05-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1009359584 |
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Alan Nadel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2018-05-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 147252764X |
The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. Keenly aware of the musical paradigms informing Wilson's dramatic technique, Nadel shows how jazz and, particularly, the blues provide the structural mechanisms that allow Wilson to examine alternative notions of time, property, and law. Wilson's improvisational logics become crucial to expressing his notions of black identity and resituating the relationship of literal to figurative in the African American community. The final two chapters include contributions by scholars Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Donald E. Pease
| Author | : Alan Nadel |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2010-05-16 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1587299356 |
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.
| Author | : Sandra G. Shannon |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2016-02-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 147662299X |
Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson's narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they also reflect the psychological trauma of his disconnection with his biological father, his impassioned efforts to discover and reconnect with the blues, with Africa and with poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and his love for the vernacular of Pittsburgh.
| Author | : Mary L. Bogumil |
| Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 1535849096 |
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.
| Author | : Riley K. Temple |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2017-02-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1498237819 |
August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is as old as the number of years blacks have been on these shores. All of the characters in the ten-play cycle are her children. Their search is through circumstance and adventure, certainly. This author demonstrates how Wilson uses language--poetry, the blues--to bring each play's characters to a point of wholeness, redemption, and freedom, not from history, but ennobled and strengthened by it. Wilson employs fundamental theological doctrines to exhort Aunt Ester's children to remember by whom and how they were freed and made whole.
