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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maley, Patrick, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wilson, August.
Wilson, August > Criticism and interpretation.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Historical drama, American.
Blues (Music) in literature.
American drama.
African Americans in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Theâtre americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Blues dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Historical drama, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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