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UNINA9910973143303321 |
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Titolo |
August Wilson : completing the twentieth-century cycle / / edited by Alan Nadel |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2010 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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, discography, and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Beginning again, again: business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the ocean / Alan Nadel -- Contesting black male responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney / Dana A. Williams -- Challenging the stereotypes of black manhood: the hidden transcript in Jitney / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon -- The holyistic blues of Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy -- August Wilson's Lazarus complex / Donald E. Pease -- If we must die: violence as history lesson in Seven guitars and King Hedley II / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- You can't make life happen without a woman: paternity and the pitfalls of structural design in King Hedley II and Seven guitars / Herman Beavers -- Turn your lamp down low! Aunt Ester dies in King Hedley II. Now what? / Sandra G. Shannon -- Ritual death and Wilson's female Christ / Vivian Gist Spencer and Yvonne Chambers -- Miss Tyler's two bodies: Aunt Ester and the legacy of time / Barbara Lewis -- August Wilson and the demands of capital / Nathan Grant -- Finite and final interruptions: using time in Radio golf / David Lacroix -- An exercise in peripheral vision: loyalties, ironies, and sports in Radio golf / Anthony Stewart -- Radio golf in the age of Obama / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Appendix: Discography for Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy. |
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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the |
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Pittsburgh Cycle, the plays, which portrayed the struggles of African-Americans, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, a Tony Award for Best Play, and seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle is the first volume devoted to the last five plays of the cycle individually-Jitney, |
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