August Wilson in context /
"The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights, this collection not only chronicles August Wilson's career and artistic legacy, but also makes apparent his continuing relevance to culture and politics today"--
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Pittsburgh's Hill District : the people, the places, the history / Laurence Glasco
- Walking the streets of the city : August Wilson's place in American theatre / Heather S. Nathans
- August Wilson and the chitlin circuit / Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
- Jorge Luis Borges and August Wilson / Paul Devlin
- Seeing and being, the part and the whole : the influence of Romare Bearden on August Wilson / Jon Dietrick
- Of "manners and rituals" : Baldwin, Bullins, and the portrayals of Black life / Ernest L. Gibson III
- August Wilson as predecessor / Patrick Maley
- August Wilson's women / Leticia L. Ridley
- Black masculinity and homosocial bonding in August Wilson's dramas / J. Ken Stuckey
- What is this "Africa" in August Wilson's plays and scholarship? / Sandra L. Richards
- "In my mother's house" : August Wilson's portrait of the Black family / Sandra G. Shannon
- Transformative movements : August Wilson and the Great Migration / Ladrica Menson-Furr
- August Wilson wrestles with the Black middle class / Lisa B. Thompson
- After the reckoning : revisiting August Wilson's "The ground on which i stand" in the wake of Black Lives Matter / Aviva Helena Neff
- The enduring charge of August Wilson's "I want a Black director" / Isaiah Matthew Wooden
- August Wilson at Penumbra / Macelle Mahala
- August Wilson, Chicago, and the Goodman Theatre / Megan E. Geigner
- From 1984 to 2024 : August Wilson on Broadway / Christopher Bell
- Directing August Wilson on the British stage : Paulette Randall's productions of The piano lesson and Fences / Lynette Goddard
- African American cinematic language and the American century cycle / Monica White Ndounou
- Creating dangerous music : the August Wilson archive at the University of Pittsburgh library system / Leah Mickens and William Daw
- Directing Wilson : a roundtable conversation with Denise Chapman, TammyRa' Jackson, Ron OJ Parson, Mark Clayton Southers, Timothy Douglas, Seret Scott, and Bartlett Sher / DeRon S. Williams
- Cultural magpies : a conversation with Jack Magaw and Regina García / Khalid Y. Long
- Designing August : a conversation with Constanza Romero and David Gallo / Willa J. Taylor
- Aunt Ester and performing memory / Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green
- Redefining American theatre : August Wilson and David Henry Hwang / Khalid Y. Long
- Uneasy lie the heads that wear the crowns : constructing a spiritual center in The Emperor Jones and King Hedley II / Donald P. Gagnon
- The influence of images : Hank Aaron and the Little Rock Nine as sources of dramatic tension in Fences / Ellen Bonds
- August Wilson's generative gem for re-embodiment, materiality, and migratory transformation / Iyanna Hamby
- August Wilson and dramaturgy : discovering oral traditions in the American century cycle / Melonnie Walker.