Voices and Silences: With a New Epilogue

by Jones, James Earl

• ISBN13: 9780879109691
• ISBN10: 0879109696
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp

Summary

As this book explores the upbringing of James Earl Jones so does it discover his beginnings as an actor. As Jones delves deeply into his memory, so we venture deep into the rural south of his origins and early life, deep into his turbulent family history, and deep into the roles he's played both on the stage and on screens large and small. In the new epilogue that concludes this edition, Jones -now in his seventies- remembers the personal and professional events of the decade since the book's original publication.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Prologue	xxi
PART ONE VOICES OVERHEARD	1	(56)
My Mothers and My Fathers	3	(16)
Boyish Days	19	(14)
The Promised Land, Site Unseen	33	(24)
PART TWO SILENCES	57	(40)
Learning to Speak	59	(14)
Loner	73	(14)
Journeyman Apprentice	87	(10)
PART THREE VOICES DISCOVERED	97	(84)
Voice Lessons	99	(12)
The Blacks	111	(14)
Off Broadway: The Pathfinders	125	(16)
Othello	141	(12)
Othello in the Park	153	(16)
Behind the Scenes	169	(12)
PART FOUR VOICES CHOSEN	181	(158)
The Great White Hope	183	(12)
The Great White Hope Goes to Broadway and Barcelona	195	(20)
Of Mice and Men	215	(10)
Paul Robeson, Nat Turner, and Other Voices	225	(18)
The Robeson Ruckus, and Ad Hoc Art	243	(22)
Grendel	265	(14)
Television from ``Tarzan'' to ``Paris'' to ``Gabriel's Fire''	279	(14)
Othello on Broadway	293	(14)
The Magic Hour	307	(14)
Fences	321	(18)
PART FIVE VOICES AND SILENCES REMEMBERED	339	(38)
Homesteading	341	(14)
Journal	355	(22)
Epilogue	377	(24)
Chronology of the Career of James Earl Jones	401	(12)
Index	413