Gem of the ocean: essays on August Wilson in the Black diaspora

"The edition editors, ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago Third World Press [2015]
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:"The edition editors, ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Introduction / Olasope Oyelaran -- 1. Invocation: To Raise the Dead and Foretell the Future / Ed Bullins -- 2. Essentials of the Ground on Which August Wilson Stands / August Wilson -- 3. Duty: Reflections on August Wilson's Vision of Black Theatre / Kwame S. Dawes -- 4. The Ground on Which August Wilson Stands: Location and Agency in Afrocentric Theatre / Barbara J. Molette and Carlton W. Molette -- 5. Witnessing: The Invention of Myth as Resistance and Healing in the Plays of August Wilson / Kwame S. Dawes -- 6. August Wilson's Race Matters / Harry J. Elam Jr. -- 7. Decoding the African in African-American: Interpretations in the LSU Production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone / Femi Euba -- 8. Music and Mythology in Wilson's Plays / Kim Pereira -- 9. The Mythical Matrix in Wilson's Plays / Sydne Mahone -- 10. Myth, Memory and Masks: Sankofa Aesthetics in Wole Soyinka, August Wilson, and Earl Lovelace / Funso Aiyejina -- 11. For the Warrior that He Was: The Fighting Spirit in August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon -- 12. Our Dramatic Bildungsroman as an International Aide memoire: August Wilson's African American Century Cycle / Ladrica Menson-Furr -- 13. August Wilson on the Stage in England: A Salute to a Colossus / Yvonne Brewster -- 14. Othello's Dominion, Immigrant Domain / Wole Soyinka -- 15. Wole Soyinka's Troupe, "Othello's Dominion, Immigrant Domain" / Olasope O. Oyelaran -- Elemental Larry Leon Hamlin / Arthur M. Reese -- Contributors
Beschreibung:XIII, 170 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780883783481

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