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a literary companion

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August Wilson

a literary companion

"Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson has created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. He forces readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century." "This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies, and themes from the work on one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources and includes suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of forty topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
266

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August Wilson: a literary companion
2004, McFarland & Co., McFarland & Company, McFarland
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Table of Contents

Chronology of Wilson's life and works
Wilson's genealogy
August Wilson : a literary companion
Appendix A: Time line of Hill District residents and events
Appendix B: Writing and research topics.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.

Published in
Jefferson, N.C
Series
McFarland literary companion series ;, 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.I45677 Z89 2004, PS3573

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 266 p. ;
Number of pages
266

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3292102M
Internet Archive
augustwilsonlite0000snod
ISBN 10
0786419032
LCCN
2004009594
OCLC/WorldCat
56024204
Library Thing
2025745
Goodreads
408375

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