03295nam 2200493 a 450 991078941700332120230725031428.01-58729-935-6(CKB)2670000000095485(EBL)843216(OCoLC)733062236(SSID)ssj0000521029(PQKBManifestationID)11312590(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521029(PQKBWorkID)10517480(PQKB)11130324(MiAaPQ)EBC843216(MdBmJHUP)muse3004(Au-PeEL)EBL843216(CaPaEBR)ebr10481054(EXLCZ)99267000000009548520090921d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAugust Wilson[electronic resource] completing the twentieth-century cycle /edited by Alan NadelIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20101 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-875-9 Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.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.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 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,812/.54Nadel Alan1947-1557162MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789417003321August Wilson3852007UNINA