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Theatre of August Wilson

Alan Nadel
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      The first comprehensive study of August Wilson’s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson’s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson’s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. Keenly aware of the musical paradigms informing Wilson’s dramatic technique, Nadel shows how jazz and, particularly, the blues provide the structural mechanisms that allow Wilson to examine alternative notions of time, property, and law. Wilson’s improvisational logics become crucial to expressing his notions of black identity and resituating the relationship of literal to figurative in the African American community. The final two chapters include contributions by scholars Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Donald E. Pease
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Alan Nadel EAN: 9781472530486 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 422 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-05-17 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      English, Theatre studies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Alan Nadel is William T. Bryan Chair of America Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky. In addition to several books on postwar American literature and media, including Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (1988) and Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (2006), he is the editor/contributor for two volumes of essays on the drama of August Wilson: May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson (1994) and August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle (2010). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Georgia Review, Partisan Review, Paris Review, and Shenandoah.
      The first comprehensive study of August Wilson’s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson’s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson’s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. Keenly aware of the musical paradigms informing Wilson’s dramatic technique, Nadel shows how jazz and, particularly, the blues provide the structural mechanisms that allow Wilson to examine alternative notions of time, property, and law. Wilson’s improvisational logics become crucial to expressing his notions of black identity and resituating the relationship of literal to figurative in the African American community. The final two chapters include contributions by scholars Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Donald E. Pease
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Alan Nadel EAN: 9781472530486 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 422 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-05-17 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      English, Theatre studies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Alan Nadel is William T. Bryan Chair of America Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky. In addition to several books on postwar American literature and media, including Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (1988) and Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity (2006), he is the editor/contributor for two volumes of essays on the drama of August Wilson: May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson (1994) and August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle (2010). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Georgia Review, Partisan Review, Paris Review, and Shenandoah.

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