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After August : Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama /

"After August argues that August Wilson was foremost a bluesman working in drama, and that recognizing his blues techniques reveals American drama's fascination with the process of defining the self in collaboration with community. The book reads Wilson's Century Cycle plays alongside...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maley, Patrick, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: identity, performance, and the American dramatic tradition
  • Part I. Blues dramaturgy. Blues and the social human
  • "I am the blues": August Wilson as bluesman
  • August Wilson's blues
  • Part II. Performance, identity, and reimagining American drama. "God a'mighty, I be lonesomer'n ever!": Eugene O'Neill's aesthetic of whiteness
  • "Laws of silence don't work": Tennessee Williams and the problem of sexualized masculinity
  • August Wilson's legacy and its limits: worrying the line in Katori Hall and Tarell Alvin McCraney.