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).
The Ground on which I Stand
The Ground on which I Stand - 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 Ground on which I Stand write by August Wilson. This book was released on 2001. The Ground on which I Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
Approaches to Teaching the Plays 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 Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson write by Sandra G. Shannon. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
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.
The Theatre of August Wilson
The Theatre 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 Theatre of August Wilson write by Alan Nadel. This book was released on 2018-05-17. The Theatre of August Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
