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UNINA9910953635003321 |
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May all your fences have gates : essays on the drama of August Wilson / / edited by Alan Nadel |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1994 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Historical drama, American - History and criticism |
African Americans in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; The History Lesson: Authenticity and Anachronism in August Wilson's Plays; August Wilson's Burden: The Function of Neoclassical Jazz; Speaking of Ma Rainey / Talking about the Blues; Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson; Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner? Come and Gone; Ghosts on the Piano: August Wilson and the Representation of Black American History; American History as "Loud Talking" in Two Trains Running; Romare Bearden, August Wilson, and the Traditions of African Performance |
The Ground on Which I Stand: August Wilson's Perspective on African American WomenAugust Wilson's Women; August Wilson's Gender Lesson; I Want a Black Director; "The Crookeds with the Straights": Fences, Race, and the Politics of Adaptation; Annotated Bibliography of Works by and about August Wilson; Notes on Contributors; Index to the Plays |
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This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial to Wilson's canon: the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of |
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drama. The collection includes essays by virtually all the scholars who have currently published on Wi |
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UNINA9910524675203321 |
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Autore |
Zumwalt Rosemary Lévy <1944-> |
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American Folklore Scholarship : A Dialogue of Dissent / / Rosemary Levy Zumwalt |
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Indiana University Press, 1988 |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 1988 |
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©1988 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 186 pages.) |
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Folklore - États-Unis - Histoire |
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Folklore - United States - History |
History |
United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
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one: Discipline and Identity -- two: American Folklore Studies: Field and Scope -- three: The Schism in Folklore -- four: The Literary Folklorists -- five: The Anthropological Folklorists -- six: Approaches to Folklore: The Literary and the Anthropological -- seven: Remnants of the Past in the Present: Conflict in Contemporary Folklore Theory. |
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Rosemary Zumwalt examines the split between the literary folklorists and the anthropological folklorists during the period from 1888, when the American Folklore Society was founded, to the early 1940s, when control of the Journal of American Folklore by the anthropologists was ended. At the center of the conflict were concerns of professionalism, science, and academic discipline. For the literary folklorists, the orientation was toward literary works and the unwritten tradition from |
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which they derived. Folklorists a·lso focused on the study of literary types or genres. Child and Kittredge studied the ballad; Thompson, the folktale; Taylor, the riddle and the proverb. In anthropology, study was directed toward cultures without writing, and the emphasis was on fieldwork. Boas in his own writings, and in training his students, stressed collection of every aspect of the life of a people. And part of that material collected was folklore. The literary folklorists looked at literary forms for folklore while the anthropological folklorists looked at the life of the people and saw folklore only as part of it. Although this discipline-bound focus of the two factions created friction and led the two groups in different directions, it helped shape the development of the discipline in the United States. |
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