August Wilson

Author : Alan Nadel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299356
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August Wilson written by Alan Nadel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harry J. Elam
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021842
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson written by Harry J. Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578068302
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with August Wilson written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary L. Bogumil
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032523
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding August Wilson written by Mary L. Bogumil and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573627958
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August Wilson's Jitney written by August Wilson and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Jen Bryant
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356241
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feed Your Mind written by Jen Bryant and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of August Wilson’s journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America’s greatest playwrights August Wilson (1945–2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic, everyday voice of black Americans. As a child, he read off soup cans and cereal boxes, and when his mother brought him to the library, his whole world opened up. After facing intense prejudice at school from both students and some teachers, August dropped out. However, he continued reading and educating himself independently. He felt that if he could read about it, then he could teach himself anything and accomplish anything. Like many of his plays, Feed Your Mind is told in two acts, revealing how Wilson grew up to be one of the most influential American playwrights. The book includes an author’s note, a timeline of August Wilson’s life, a list of Wilson’s plays, and a bibliography.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361873
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground on which I Stand written by August Wilson and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Author : Laurence Admiral Glasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978828479
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August Wilson written by Laurence Admiral Glasco and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603292608
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson written by Sandra G. Shannon and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573696008
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Guitars written by August Wilson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.