The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson - Hardcover

Shannon, Sandra G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882580698 ISBN 13: 9780882580692

Verlag: Howard Univ Pr, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson, Sandra Shannon follows the playwright's path through each decade. From the outset, she considers how he uses poetry, the blues, Romare Bearden's art, and other cultural artifacts to lead him to imagined sites of pain and resignation, healing and renewal in the collective memory of black America. It is in these places of defeat and victory, Shannon demonstrates, that Wilson creates drama, as he excavates, examines, and reclaims the past. Although Wilson diverts attention away from factual details and focuses on the human costs of family dislocation, chronic unemployment, or cultural alienation, Shannon illustrates how fully the plays are grounded in credible historical contexts - from slavery and Emancipation to the aftermath of World War II, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War. Moreover, she identifies and analyzes the themes that recur in some plays and branch off in new directions in others - including the dislocations that attended black migration to the North and communication gaps between black men and women. As she examines each of the plays in Wilson's dramatic history of the African American experience, Shannon conveys the broad range of his dramatic vision.

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Sandra Shannon is associate professor of African American Literature and Criticism at Howard University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Howard Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0882580698
• ISBN 13: 9780882580692
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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