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August Wilson and Black Aesthetics [Hardcover]

Dana Williams (Editor), Sandra Shannon (Editor), August Wilson (Principal), Sybil Roberts (Principal)

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ISBN-10: 1403964068 | ISBN-13: 978-1403964069 | Publication Date: August 21, 2004

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics offers new essays that address issues raised in Wilson's "The Ground on Which I Stand" speech. Essays and interviews range 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 included is Sybil Roberts' A Liberating Prayer: A Lovesong for Mumia, that, for two seasons, has played to sold out houses, but that until now has not been published.

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Dana Williams is Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Howard University. Sandra Shannon is Professor of African American and American Drama at Howard University.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 21, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403964068
ISBN-13: 978-1403964069
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,278,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Since 1990 when he won his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, August Wilson has been among the most well-received and critically acclaimed playwrights in American theater. Read the first page

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colorblind casting, theater activism, black theater, voice ownership, shiny man, authentic blackness, black authenticity, spiritual realism, black playwrights, black aesthetic, cultural ownership, theater development, convict leasing, black arts movement, revolutionary theatre, black theatre, diasporic culture, dramatic theory

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African American, August Wilson, Joe Turner, New York, Jim Crow, Boy Willie, Katherine Dunham, The Piano Lesson, United States, Herald Loomis, New Age Post-Revolutionary, Black Arts Movement, Rita Dove, Howard University, Toni Morrison, New Negro Renaissance, Southern Illinois University, Harlem Renaissance, Holy Ghost, Liberating Prayer, Morris Library, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Special Collections, Revolutionary Afrocentric, Black Swan

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This book cites 100 books:

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson on 11 pages
Mother Love: Poems by Rita Dove on 9 pages
Baby of the Family (Harvest Book) by Tina McElroy Ansa on 7 pages
The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson by Sandra G. Shannon on 4 pages
The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois on 4 pages

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2 books cite this book:

Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance by Ayanna Thompson in Back Matter
Conversations with August Wilson (Literary Conversations) by Jackson R. Bryer on page 241

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