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9780472031634

The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson

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  • ISBN13:

    9780472031634

  • ISBN10:

    0472031635

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 figures in American contemporary theater. Founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, Wilson cultivated a self-defined dramatic project to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade.

Author Biography

Harry J. Elam, Jr., is Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of Drama at Stanford University

Table of Contents

The Overture ``To Disembark'' ix
Introduction (W)righting History: A Meditation in Four Beats 1(26)
The Music Is the Message
27(30)
Fools and Babes
57(31)
The Woman Question
88(39)
Men of August
127(39)
Ogun in Pittsburgh: Resurrecting the Spirit
166(49)
The Rhetoric of Resistance by Way of Conclusion
215(17)
The Doing and Undoing of History: An Epilogue 232(15)
Notes 247(24)
Selected Bibliography 271(10)
Index 281

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