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After August Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama
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Title
After August [electronic resource] : Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama / Patrick Maley.
ISBN
0813943027
9780813943022
0813943000
9780813942995 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813943008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2019 Literature.
Other formats
Online version: Maley, Patrick, 1981- author. After August Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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