LEADER 03295nam 2200493 a 450 001 9910789417003321 005 20230725031428.0 010 $a1-58729-935-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095485 035 $a(EBL)843216 035 $a(OCoLC)733062236 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11312590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10517480 035 $a(PQKB)11130324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3004 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10481054 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095485 100 $a20090921d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAugust Wilson$b[electronic resource] $ecompleting the twentieth-century cycle /$fedited by Alan Nadel 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-875-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references, discography, and index. 327 $aBeginning 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. 330 $aJust 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, 676 $a812/.54 701 $aNadel$b Alan$f1947-$01557162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789417003321 996 $aAugust Wilson$93852007 997 $aUNINA