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After August : blues, August Wilson, and American drama / Patrick Maley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813943022
  • 0813943027
  • 9780813942995
  • 0813942993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: After AugustDDC classification:
  • 812/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.I45677 Z77 2019
Online resources:
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.
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.
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"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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