TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maley,Patrick
TI  - After August: blues, August Wilson, and American drama 
SN  - 9780813943022
AV  - PS3573.I45677 Z77 2019
U1  - 812/.54 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Wilson, August
KW  - Wilson, August.
KW  - Historical drama, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Blues (Music) in literature
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - American drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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