August Wilson S Pittsburgh Cycle

Author : Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786478002

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August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle by Sandra G. Shannon Pdf

Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson's narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they also reflect the psychological trauma of his disconnection with his biological father, his impassioned efforts to discover and reconnect with the blues, with Africa and with poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and his love for the vernacular of Pittsburgh.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627959

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August Wilson's Jitney by August Wilson Pdf

"Regular cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to each other. Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys--unofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers. When the boss Becker's son returns from prison, violence threatens to erupt. What makes this play remarkable is not the plot; Jitney is Wilson at his most real--the words these men use and the stories they tell form a true slice of life."--The Wikipedia entry, accessed 5/22/2014.

Author : Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476622996

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August Wilsonäó»s Pittsburgh Cycle by Sandra G. Shannon Pdf

Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945–2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author’s ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career—a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow “Africans in America.” While Wilson’s narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they also reflect the psychological trauma of his disconnection with his biological father, his impassioned efforts to discover and reconnect with the blues, with Africa and with poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and his love for the vernacular of Pittsburgh.

Author : Laurence Admiral Glasco,Christopher Rawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 097882847X

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August Wilson by Laurence Admiral Glasco,Christopher Rawson Pdf

Author : Alan Nadel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781587299353

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August Wilson by Alan Nadel Pdf

Contributors to this collection of 15 essays are academics in English, theater, and African American studies. They focus on the second half of Wilson's century cycle of plays, examining each play within the larger context of the cycle and highlighting themes within and across particular plays. Some topics discussed include business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean, contesting black male responsibilities in Jitney, the holyistic blues of Seven Guitars, violence as history lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II, and ritual death and Wilson's female Christ. The book offers an index of plays, critics, and theorists, but not a subject index. Nadel is chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky.

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : WISC:89124463746

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August Wilson's Twentieth-century Cycle Plays by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

"A literary guide examining the life of August Wilson and the themes, settings, and characters of his ten twentieth-century Cycle Plays"--

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573696004

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Seven Guitars by August Wilson Pdf

Set in Pittsburgh in 1948, Seven Guitars explores the black experience in America as friends of Floyd "Schoolboy Barton" gather together to mourn the sudden death of the talented blues guitarist who was on the brink of success. Flashing back to the week prior to his passing, the true reasons for his tragic demise are revealed.

Author : Sandra G. Shannon,Sandra L. Richards
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603292603

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Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson by Sandra G. Shannon,Sandra L. Richards Pdf

The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like Aristotle and Shakespeare. As they portray black Americans living through migration, industrialization, and war, Wilson’s plays explore the relation between a unified black consciousness and America’s collective identity. In part 1 of this volume, “Materials,†the editors survey sources on Wilson’s biography, teachable texts of Wilson’s plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources. The essays in part 2, “Approaches,†look at a diverse set of issues in Wilson’s work, including the importance of blues and jazz, intertextual connections to other playwrights, race in performance, Yoruban spirituality, and the role of women in the plays.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0241987830

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Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson Pdf

In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the great blues diva Ma Rainey is due to arrive at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. Waiting for her are the black musicians in her band, and the white owners of the record company. A tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America that the New Yorker called 'a genuine work of art'. Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son's ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578068304

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Conversations with August Wilson by Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig Pdf

Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780593087626

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Two Trains Running by August Wilson Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780593087589

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Fences by August Wilson Pdf

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573705895

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How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson Pdf

From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. From stories about his first jobs to his first loves and his experiences with racism, Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle. How I Learned What I Learned gives an inside look into one of the most celebrated playwriting voices of the twentieth century.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1559361875

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The Ground on which I Stand by August Wilson Pdf

August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : PSU:000062568562

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King Hedley II by August Wilson Pdf

Set in 1985, this is the ninth play of Wilson's Century Cycle.