August Wilson and Black aesthetics
著者
書誌事項
August Wilson and Black aesthetics
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : pbk
注記
first published in hardcover in 2004
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005.
目次
Introduction - Dana A. Williams * Black Aesthetics as Theory, Art, and Ideology * The Development of African-American Dramatic Theory: W.E.B. DuBois to August Wilson - Hand to Hand! - Mikell Pinkney * Rita Dove's Mother Love: Revising the Black Aesthetic through the Lens of Western Discourse - Tracey L. Walters * The Ifa Paradigm: Reading the Spirit in Tina McElroy Ansa's Baby of the Family - Georgene Bess Montgomery * Just 'Cause (or Just Cause): On August Wilson's Case for a Black Theater - by John V. White * Black Aesthetics and Interdisciplinary Black Arts * "Keeping It Real": August Wilson and Hip Hop - Harry J. Elam, Jr. * Giving Voice and Vent to African American Culture: August Wilson's Black Aesthetics and Katherine Dunham's Fight for Cultural Ownership in Mambo - Dorothea Fischer-Hornung * The Mumia Project: Theatre Activism at Howard University - Sybil J. Roberts * August Wilson's Plays and Black Aesthetics * Phantom Limbs Dancing Juba Rites in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson - Reggie Young * Speaking of Voice and August Wilson's Women - Tara T. Green * Using Black Rage to Elucidate African and African-American Identity in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone - C. Patrick Tyndall * Current, Unpublished Interviews That Speak to Aesthetic Issues Raised in "The Ground on Which I Stand" * The Ground on Which He Stands: Charles S. Dutton on August Wilson - Yolanda Williams Page * Interview with Wilson conducted by Sandra Shannon * A Liberating Prayer: A Lovesong for Mumia - Sybil J. Roberts * Afterword - Sandra G. Shannon
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