August Wilson : a conversation with August Wilson /

“…Conversation with August Wilson…”
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August Wilson : completing the twentieth-century cycle /

Table of Contents: “…Contesting black male responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney /…”
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August Wilson's Fences. by Menson-Furr, Ladrica

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The theatre of August Wilson / by Nadel, Alan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Guitars and King Hedley II: August Wilson's Lazarus complex / Donald E. Pease -- Performance politics and authenticity: Joe Turner's come and gone and Jitney / Harry J. …”
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The past as present in the drama of August Wilson / by Elam, Harry Justin

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Fences : a play by Wilson, August

Fences : a play by Wilson, August

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60 minutes. August Wilson

“…August Wilson…”
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May all your fences have gates : essays on the drama of August Wilson /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; The History Lesson: Authenticity and Anachronism in August Wilson's Plays; August Wilson's Burden: The Function of Neoclassical Jazz; Speaking of Ma Rainey / Talking about the Blues; Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson; Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner? …”
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A companion to twentieth-century American drama

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The playwright's muse

Table of Contents: “…"Not having it all": Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon woman -- Interview with wendy Wasserstein -- Birth, baptism, and resurrection: August Wilson and the blues -- Interview with August Wilson -- Broadway boundaries: Neil Simon and popular culture -- Interview with Neil Simon -- Lessons from our first frontier -- Interview with Robert Schenkkan -- Kushner's arcades: "the borders are full of holes" -- Interview with Tony Kushner -- "A's" last memory: contextualizing Albee's Three tall women -- Interview with Edward Albee -- Horton Foote: mystic of the American theatre -- Interview with Horton Foote -- Jonathan Larson rocks broadway -- Conversations with Jonathan Larson -- Seducing the audience: politics in the plays of Paula Vogel -- Interview with Paula Vogel -- Margaret Edson: playwright in spite of herself -- Donald Margulies: from Boitschick to man.…”
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Penumbra : the premier stage for African American drama by Mahala, Macelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings -- Building a repertoire and an ensemble -- Black nativity -- Mutual reciprocity : August Wilson and Penumbra -- Black feminist performance -- Intercultural collaborations -- Maintaining a legacy -- Production history of the Penumbra Theatre Company.…”
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Penumbra : the premier stage for African American drama by Mahala, Macelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings -- Building a repertoire and an ensemble -- Black nativity -- Mutual reciprocity : August Wilson and Penumbra -- Black feminist performance -- Intercultural collaborations -- Maintaining a legacy -- Production history of the Penumbra Theatre Company.…”
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Outward evil, inward battle : human memory in literature

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson -- Music. Memory, the Blues, and African American Slave Narratives ; It Rains Inside : Parenting and Music in Works by William Faulkner, August Wilson, and Sherman Alexie -- Resistance. …”
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The problem of the color(blind) : racial transgression and the politics of black performance by Catanese, Brandi Wilkins, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Bad manners : talking about race -- The end of race or the end of blackness? : August Wilson, Robert Brustein, and color-blind casting -- The limits of color blindness : interracial sexuality, Denzel Washington, and Hollywood film -- Transgressing tradition : Suzan-Lori Parks and black performance (as) theory -- Are we there yet? …”
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Modern Drama : Defining the Field. by Knowles, Ric

Table of Contents: “…Theatre Studies at the Crossroads -- Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage -- Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama -- Luminous Writing, Embodiment, and Modern Drama: Mme Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht -- The Haunted Houses of Modernity -- Hauntings: Anxiety, Technology, and Gender in Peter Pan -- Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism -- Modernism and Genocide: Citing Minstrelsy in Postcolonial Agitprop -- August Wilson, Doubling, Madness, and Modern African-American Drama -- WORKS CITED -- CONTRIBUTORS.…”
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The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Rituals of repair: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog --Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water.…”
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One on one : the best monologues for mature actors

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Icons of African American literature : the Black literary world

Table of Contents: “…Patterson -- Up from slavery / by Jessica Parker -- Alice Walker / by Erin Huskey -- August Wilson / by Yolanda W. Page.…”
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Aristotle and Black Drama : A Theater of Civil Disobedience by Rankine, Patrice D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove : The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form : Eugene O'Neill's All God's chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's "Spectacle" and August Wilson's "Spectacle character" : Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing : Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Civil disobedience, truth and reconciliation, and the cosmopolitan citizen : Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.…”
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Focus on playwrights : portraits and Interviews by Johann, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Anderson -- What we were, what we are: a dialogue with Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang -- August Wilson -- George Abbott -- Romulus Linney -- Nicky Silver -- Wendy Wasserstein -- A.R. …”
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100 greatest American plays

Table of Contents: “…Hartley Manners ; The Philadelphia story (1939) by Philip Barry ; Picnic (1953) by William Inge ; The piano lesson (1990) by August Wilson ; Proof (2000) by David Auburn ; The rainmaker (1954) by N. …”
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The American theatre reader : essays and conversations from American theatre magazine

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South of tradition : essays on African American literature by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.…”
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South of tradition : essays on African American literature by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.…”
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New Messengers. by Kačer, Tomáš

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African drama and performance

Table of Contents: “…King Baabu and the Renaissance vision / Wole Soyinka -- Dimensions of theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach -- Theatre and anthropology, theatricality, and culture / Johannes Fabian -- Pre-texts and intermedia: African theatre and the question of history / Ato Quayson -- Soyinka, Euripides, and the anxiety of empire / Isidore Okpewho -- Antigone in the "land of the incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour santigone (black wedding candles for blessed-Antigone) / John Conteh-Morgan -- Gestural interpretation of the occult in the Bin Kadi-so adaptation of Macbeth / Marie-José Hourantier -- Yoruba gods on the American stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Sandra L. …”
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Pittsburgh lives : men and women who shaped our city

Table of Contents: “…Lomakin -- Leonard Litman -- Gene Kelly -- Jimmy Stewart -- Fred Rogers -- August Wilson -- David L. Lawrence -- Richard S. Caliguiri -- John Heinz III -- Thomas J. …”
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African American dramatists : an A-to-Z guide

Table of Contents: “…Walker (1935- ) -- Douglas Turner Ward (1930- ) -- Samm-Art Williams (1946- ) -- August Wilson (1945- ) -- Charlayne Woodward (1955- ) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Marvin X (1944- ).…”
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Capitalism and commerce in imaginative literature : perspectives on business from novels and plays

Table of Contents: “…Delany's return to Nevèrÿon / Jeff Riggenbach -- "We do not sow" : the economics and politics of A Song of Ice and Fire / Matthew McCaffrey and Carmen Elena Dorobăt -- Harry Potter and the invisible hand ; or, the virtue of business that is not serious / Heather King -- Race, rules, and real estate in August Wilson's Radio Golf / Susan Love Brown.…”
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Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II

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Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II

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Life as a playwright : a survival guide by Klein, Jon

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The Book of Broadway by Grode, Eric

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Literature : a portable anthology

Table of Contents: “…Farquharson Sharp -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- Fences / August Wilson -- Anna in the tropics / Nilo Cruz -- Misreadings / Neena Beber -- Sweat / Lynn Nottage.…”

SOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader

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SOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader

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