August Wilson in context / edited by Khalid Y. Long, Isaiah Matthew Wooden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Long, Khalid Y., editor.

Wooden, Isaiah Matthew, editor.

Series:

Literature in context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, August--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilson, August.

American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 390 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

August Wilson is one of the twentieth century's most important and acclaimed playwrights. This volume demonstrates Wilson's significance to contemporary theatre, culture, and politics by providing fresh and compelling insights into his life, practices, and contributions as an artist and public intellectual. Across four thematically organized sections, contributors situate Wilson's work in his social, cultural and political contexts, examine ongoing developments in Wilson studies, explore the production contexts of his plays, and explicate his dramaturgical sensibilities and strategies. This is the authoritative guide to Wilson's career and artistic legacy for students, theatre practitioners, and general readers interested in this remarkable figure.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-36322-0

1-009-36319-0

1-009-36320-4

OCLC:

1525264550