num_pages: 136
description: In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.
language: English
title: August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey
titlecomplete: August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey
publisher: University of Illinois Press