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Editor's Note vii
Introduction Harold Bloom 1
Ghosts from "Down There": The Southernness of August Wilson Patricia Gantt 5
Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's Dramaturgy: A Case Study Sandra G. Shannon 21
Race, Ritual, Reconnection, Reclamation: August Wilson and the Refiguration of the Male Dramatic Subject Keith Clark 43
Members and Lames: Language in the Plays of August Wilson William W. Cook 77
"We's the Leftovers": Whiteness as Economic Power and Exploitation in August Wilson's Twentieth-Century Cycle of Plays Çi`dem Üet;sekes 87
Images of African Traditional Religions and Christianity in Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson Amanda M. Rudolph 103
Booker T. Washington, August Wilson, and the Shadows in the Garden Ladrica Menson-Furr 115
"King August": August Wilson in His Time Philip D. Beidler 131
Radio Golf: The Courage of His Convictions-Survival, Success and Spirituality Margaret Booker 149
Gem of the Ocean and the Redemptive Power of History Harry J. Elam, Jr. 161
Chronology 175
Contributors 179
Bibliography 181
Acknowledgments 185
Index 187
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Jed Beery
reviewed August Wilson on August 09, 2014 August Wilson
A brilliant woman. Says so much I agree with in a way I could never say it. Says enough I disagree with to be stimulating.
Favourite part of an interview so far:
"It's not just that people want things to be easy; things that weren't so hard in the past seem more difficult today. I recently met a young woman at a major university who is writing her Ph.D on Proust. This is her sixth year as a graduate student; and she asked me, "Don't you find it hard to read Proust-all those long sentences?" And I asked, "Hard compared to what? Kurt Vonnegut? Yeah, I guess it's harder than Kurt Vonnegut." I submit that twenty years ago, no graduate student in her sixth year at a well known university would ever have been able to utter such a sentence. It wouldn't have been sayable. She would rather have gotten undressed in the middle of the street than say, shamelessly and rather wistfully, "Don't you that that Proust is kinda hard?" People don't even know what they can't say anymore...There are all sorts of changes like this, of people more and more finding things hard, of people not have the necessary energy." She said this in 1981. Fast forward 30 years and....
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