The Cambridge companion to August Wilson
By: edited by Christopher Bigsby.
Contributors: Bigsby, C. W. E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780521685061
Subjects: Wilson, August -- Criticism and interpretation; Historical drama, American -- History and criticism; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: August Wilson: the ground on which he stood / Christopher Bigsby; title: Been here and gone / John Lahr; title: August Wilson's relationship to Black theatre: community, aesthetics, history and race / Mary L. Bogumil; title: Music and mythology in August Wilson's plays / Kim Pereira; title: Gem of the ocean and the redemptive power of history / Harry J. Elam, Jr.; title: Joe Turner's come and gone / Samuel A. Hay; title: Ma Rainey's black bottom: cutting the historical record, dramatizing a blues CD / Alan Nadel; title: A piano and its history: family and transcending family / Felicia Hardison Londrâe; title: The tragedy of Seven guitars / Brenda Murphy; title: Safe at home?: August Wilson's Fences / Matthew Roudanâe; title: Two trains running: blood on the tracks / Stephen Bottoms; title: Jitney, folklore and responsibility / David Krasner; title: King Hedley II: in the midst of all this death / Joan Herrington; title: Radio golf: the courage of his convictions: survival, success and sprituality / Margaret Booker; title: Critics on August Wilson / David K. Sauer and Janice A. Sauer; title: An interview with August Wilson / Christopher Bigsby.