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A Casebook
Marilyn Elkins
ISBN: 9780815336341
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
Edition: Revised
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These twelve original essays on the only African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice provide a thorough introduction to a much under-valued playwright. Highlights include an interview with the playwright himself.
The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume provides a thorough introduction to his body of work. It investigates such thematic, artistic and ideological concerns as his use of the South and the black human body as metaphors; his collaboration with Lloyd Richards; the influence of the blues, Baraka, Bearden, Borges and Fugard on his work; his creative method; and his treatment of African American family life. Highlights of the collection are the contributions from noted scholars and a recent interview with the playwright himself.
| ISBN | 0815336349 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780815336341
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 340 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Published in | CT | | Imprint | Garland Publishing Inc | | Series ISSN | 15 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Casebooks on Modern Dramatists | | Publication date | 04 May 2000 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 94027256 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 812.54 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | Pages | 376 | |
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| | | General Editor's Notes by Kimball King | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction by Marilyn Elkins | | | | | | Chronology | | | | | | August Wilson and the Four B's: Influences by Mark William Rocha | | 3 | | | | Wilson and Fugard: Politics and Art by Joanne Gordon | | 17 | | | | The B[subscript b] Burden: The Invisibility to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by Eileen Crawford | | 31 | | | | August Wilson's Folk Traditions by Trudier Harris | | 49 | | | | Ghosts from "Down There": The Southernness of August Wilson by Patricia Gantt | | 69 | | | | Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: From the Local to the Mythical in August Wilson by Pamela Jean Monaco | | 89 | | | | Approaches to Africa: The Poetics of Memory and the Body in Two August Wilson Plays by Gunilla Theander Kester | | 105 | | | | Ma Rainey and the Boyz: Gender Ideology in August Wilson's Broadway Canon by Kim Marra | | 123 | | | | Developing His Song: August Wilson's Fences by Joan Fishman | | 161 | | | | Subtle Imposition: The Lloyd Richards - August Wilson Formula by Sandra G. Shannon | | 183 | | | | Seven Guitars: August Wilson's Economy of Blues by David L. G. Arnold | | 199 | | | | Alternatives ... Opposites ... Convergences: An Interview with Lloyd Richards by Richard Pettengill | | 227 | | | | The Historical Perspective: An Interview with August Wilson by Richard Pettengill | | 235 | | | | Contributors | | 255 |
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