Approaches to teaching the plays of August Wilson /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
[2016]
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| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature ;
140. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Volume / Sandra L. Richards. Introduction ; Access to the Plays ; Full-Length Critical Resources ; Key Essays and Critical Anthologies ; Student Resources ; Additional Resources
- Comparing Wilson with Shakespeare: Teaching the Politics and Practices of Race in Performance / Ayanna Thompson
- Blues Brothers: Crosscurrents in Fences and A Streetcar Named Desire / Keith Clark
- Teaching August Wilson in an American Drama Survey / Soyica Diggs Colbert
- Person, Place, and the Ordinary in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
- August Wilson, Jazz Structure, and the Historical Record / Alan Nadel
- Telling the Story: August Wilson's Challenge to Young Actors / Joan Herrington, Von Washington
- Spotlight on Material Culture. The Logic of Chance: Blues and Policy in August Wilson's Two Trains Running / Andrew Scheiber
- Spatial Politics and Memory: The Urban Geography of August Wilson's Radio Golf / James Engstrom, Paul K. Bryant-Jackson
- Lesson Plans for the Millennial Student: An Interdisciplinary Course Inspired by the Plays of August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon
- African Routes. Teaching Joe Turner's Come and Gone / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
- African Codes and the Satiric Impulses in Wilson / Femi Euba
- "You on an Adventure": Teaching August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean / Sandra L. Richards
- Teaching the Cycle: Understanding August Wilson's Fractal Dramaturgy / Faedra Chatard Carpenter
- Teaching Students How to Examine the Role of Women in August Wilsons Plays / Dana A. Williams