August Wilson : completing the twentieth-century cycle / edited by Alan Nadel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nadel, Alan, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, August--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilson, August.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle, the plays, which portrayed the struggles of African-Americans, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, a Tony Award for Best Play, and seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle is the first volume devoted to the last five plays of the cycle individually-Jitney,

Contents:

Beginning again, again: business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the ocean / Alan Nadel

Contesting black male responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney / Dana A. Williams

Challenging the stereotypes of black manhood: the hidden transcript in Jitney / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon

The holyistic blues of Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy

August Wilson's Lazarus complex / Donald E. Pease

If we must die: violence as history lesson in Seven guitars and King Hedley II / Soyica Diggs Colbert

You can't make life happen without a woman: paternity and the pitfalls of structural design in King Hedley II and Seven guitars / Herman Beavers

Turn your lamp down low! Aunt Ester dies in King Hedley II. Now what? / Sandra G. Shannon

Ritual death and Wilson's female Christ / Vivian Gist Spencer and Yvonne Chambers

Miss Tyler's two bodies: Aunt Ester and the legacy of time / Barbara Lewis

August Wilson and the demands of capital / Nathan Grant

Finite and final interruptions: using time in Radio golf / David Lacroix

An exercise in peripheral vision: loyalties, ironies, and sports in Radio golf / Anthony Stewart

Radio golf in the age of Obama / Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Appendix: Discography for Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

ISBN:

9781587299353

1587299356

OCLC:

733062236