An in-depth study of the major plays of African American playwright August Wilson : vernacularizing the blues on stage
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書誌事項
An in-depth study of the major plays of African American playwright August Wilson : vernacularizing the blues on stage
（Black studies, v. 6）
Edwin Mellen Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This study of the playwright August Wilson emphasizes his African-American language forms, histories and identities, examining in particular his linguistic and metaphoric borrowing from the blues. It examines aesthetic debates on African-American artistes from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. After establishing the cultural and artistic setting, the study then devotes a chapter each to Wilson's most celebrated plays: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Fences", "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "The Piano Lesson", "Two Trains Running" and "Seven Guitars".
目次
- Introduction - historical context and theoretical framing
- towards the poetization of the "field of manners" - August Wilson's contribution to the American theatre
- "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" - music as cultural metaphor
- "Fences" - sports, fences and the "American Dream"
- "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" - religion and individual choice
- "The Piano Lesson" - history, cultural legacy, and family heritage
- "Two Trains Running" - business adventure and political agenda
- "Seven Guitars" - social injustice and its consequences.
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