August Wilson S Pittsburgh Cycle
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August Wilson s Pittsburgh Cycle
Author | : Sandra G. Shannon |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786478002 |
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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.
August Wilson s Jitney
Author | : August Wilson |
Publsiher | : Concord Theatricals |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0573627959 |
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"Regular cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to each other. Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys--unofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers. When the boss Becker's son returns from prison, violence threatens to erupt. What makes this play remarkable is not the plot; Jitney is Wilson at his most real--the words these men use and the stories they tell form a true slice of life."--The Wikipedia entry, accessed 5/22/2014.
August Wilson s Twentieth century Cycle Plays
Author | : Sanford Sternlicht |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : WISC:89124463746 |
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"A literary guide examining the life of August Wilson and the themes, settings, and characters of his ten twentieth-century Cycle Plays"--
August Wilson
Author | : Alan Nadel |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-05-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781587299353 |
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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
Author | : Laurence Admiral Glasco,Christopher Rawson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 097882847X |
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Seven Guitars
Author | : August Wilson |
Publsiher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0573696004 |
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Set in Pittsburgh in 1948, Seven Guitars explores the black experience in America as friends of Floyd "Schoolboy Barton" gather together to mourn the sudden death of the talented blues guitarist who was on the brink of success. Flashing back to the week prior to his passing, the true reasons for his tragic demise are revealed.
Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
Author | : Sandra G. Shannon,Sandra L. Richards |
Publsiher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781603292603 |
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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 Prizeâ€"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.
Fences and Ma Rainey s Black Bottom
Author | : August Wilson |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0241987830 |
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In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the great blues diva Ma Rainey is due to arrive at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. Waiting for her are the black musicians in her band, and the white owners of the record company. A tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America that the New Yorker called 'a genuine work of art'. Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son's ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams.