Understanding August Wilson /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | Understanding contemporary American literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding August Wilson as an African American playwright
- Ma Rainey's black bottom: the commodification of cultural experience
- Fences: posthumous justice
- Joe Turner's come and gone: community resiliency through ritual
- The piano lesson: a chorus of expectant voices
- Two trains running: everyday scholars and philosophers in a community at the crossroads
- Seven guitars: rolling the devil's dice
- King Hedley II: community, redemption, and continuity
- Jitney: playing by the rules?
- Gem of the ocean: community, the individual and values, and the postcolonial legacy
- Radio golf: the legacy of Aunt Ester's children.