The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson write by Harry J. Elam. This book was released on 2009-05-21. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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's Jitney
August Wilson's Jitney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook August Wilson's Jitney write by August Wilson. This book was released on 2002. August Wilson's Jitney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
August Wilson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook August Wilson write by Alan Nadel. This book was released on 2010-05-16. August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Conversations with August Wilson
Conversations with August Wilson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with August Wilson write by Jackson R. Bryer. This book was released on 2006. Conversations with August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Seven Guitars
Seven Guitars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Guitars write by August Wilson. This book was released on 1997-08-01. Seven Guitars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of the blues, played and sung by young men and women with little more than a guitar in their hands and a dream in their hearts. August Wilson's Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in his continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. The story follows a small group of friends who gather following the untimely death of Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a local blues guitarist on the edge of stardom. Together, they reminisce about his short life and discover the unspoken passions and undying spirit that live within each of them.
