Bibliograph

After August, blues, August Wilson, and American drama, Patrick Maley

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After August, blues, August Wilson, and American drama, Patrick Maley

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

After August

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Patrick Maley

Sub title

blues, August Wilson, and American drama

Summary

"After August argues that August Wilson was foremost a bluesman working in drama, and that recognizing his blues techniques reveals American drama's fascination with the process of defining the self in collaboration with community. The book reads Wilson's Century Cycle plays alongside the cultural history of blues music, as well as the work of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Katori Hall, Lynn Nottage, and Suzan-Lori Parks, examining these dramatists' efforts to establish a sustainable identity for the self within social terrain that is often oppressive of racial, gendered, and sexual identity"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: identity, performance, and the American dramatic tradition -- Part I. Blues dramaturgy. Blues and the social human -- "I am the blues": August Wilson as bluesman -- August Wilson's blues -- Part II. Performance, identity, and reimagining American drama. "God a'mighty, I be lonesomer'n ever!": Eugene O'Neill's aesthetic of whiteness -- "Laws of silence don't work": Tennessee Williams and the problem of sexualized masculinity -- August Wilson's legacy and its limits: worrying the line in Katori Hall and Tarell Alvin McCraney

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After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama

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