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After August : blues, August Wilson, and American drama
- Title
- After August : blues, August Wilson, and American drama / Patrick Maley.
- Author
- Maley, Patrick, 1981-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 235 pages; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- American drama
- Wilson, August
- Historical drama, American
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Blues (Music) in literature
- African Americans in literature
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Wilson, August > Criticism and interpretation
- Historical drama, American > History and criticism
- American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1483
- ISBN
- 9780813942995
- 0813942993
- 9780813943008
- 0813943000
- LCCN
- 2018055530
- OCLC
- 1079400733
- Author
- Maley, Patrick, 1981- author.
- Title
- After August : blues, August Wilson, and American drama / Patrick Maley.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1483