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After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama, Maley, Patrick, Very Goo
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- ISBN
- 9780813942995
- Subject Area
- Drama, Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- After August : Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Subject
- American / African American, Drama, Subjects & Themes / General
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 19.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 250 Pages
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Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson?s work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist importing blues music into his plays; he was a bluesman, expressing a blues ethos through drama. Reading Wilson?s American Century Cycle alongside the cultural history of blues music, as well as Wilson?s less discussed work?his interviews, the polemic speech "The Ground on Which I Stand," and his memoir play How I Learned What I Learned?Maley shows how Wilson?s plays deploy the blues technique of call-and-response, attempting to initiate a dialogue with his audience about how to be black in America. After August further contends that understanding Wilson as a bluesman demands a reinvestigation of his forebears and successors in American drama, many of whom echo his deep investment in social identity crafting. Wilson?s dramaturgical pursuit of culturally sustainable black identity sheds light on Tennessee Williams?s exploration of oppressive limits on masculine sexuality and Eugene O?Neill?s treatment of psychologically corrosive whiteness. Today, the contemporary African American playwrights Katori Hall and Tarell Alvin McCraney repeat and revise Wilson?s methods, exploring the fraught and fertile terrain of racial, gender, and sexual identity. After August makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Wilson and his undeniable impact on American drama.
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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813942993
ISBN-13
9780813942995
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038735423
Product Key Features
Publication Name
After August : Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
American / African American, Drama, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Drama, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
250 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-055530
Lc Classification Number
Ps3573.I45677z77
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
After August makes an important contribution to Wilson studies. It is a rigorously researched, wellwritten, and deft interdisciplinary investigation of one of America's most important Black dramatists and his legacy., Which nonblack contemporary playwrights converse meaningfully with Wilson's blues dramaturgy? After August 's original and revelatory approach that centers Wilson as a key interlocutorfor all of American drama opens up enticing new pathways for scholars of the American stage to explore., This book is startlingly innovative. Patrick Maley is the only American drama scholar I know of with such a deep understanding of blues history and the blues aesthetic., Which nonblack contemporary playwrights converse meaningfully with Wilson's blues dramaturgy? After August 's original and revelatory approach that centers Wilson as a key interlocutor for all of American drama opens up enticing new pathways for scholars of the American stage to explore.
Table of Content
Introduction: Identity, Performance, and the American Dramatic Tradition 1. Blues and the Social Human 2. "I am the Blues": August Wilson as Bluesman 3. August Wilson's Blues 4. "God A'mighty, I Be Lonesomer'n Ever!": Eugene O'Neill's Aesthetic of Whiteness 5. "Laws of Silence Don't Work": Tennessee Williams and the Problem of Sexualized Masculinity 6. August Wilson's Legacy and Its Limits: Worrying the Line in Katori Hall and Tarrell Alvin McCraney
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
812/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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