Gem of the ocean
Subtitle: essays on August Wilson in the Black diaspora
By: edited by Ọlásopé O. Oyèláràn and Kwame S. Dawes ; with contributions from Funso Aiyejina [and fifteen others]
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Third World Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780883783481
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; African American dramatists; History and criticism; American Historical drama; American drama; African American authors; Black theater; African Americans in literature; African diaspora; History
Other titles: August Wilson in the Black diaspora
Description: "The edition editors ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ọlásopé Oyèláràn; title: Invocation : to raise the dead and foretell the future / Ed Bullins; title: Essentials of the ground on which August Wilson stands / August Wilson; title: Duty : reflections on August Wilson's vision of Black theatre / Kwame S. Dawes; title: The ground on which August Wilson stands : location and agency in Afrocentric theatre / Barbara J. Molette and Carlton W. Molette; title: Witnessing : the invention of myth as resistance and healing in the plays of August Wilson / Kwame S. Dawes; title: August Wilson's race matters / Harry J. Elam Jr.; title: Decoding the African in African-American : interpretations in the LSU production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Femi Euba; title: Music and mythology in Wilson's plays / Kim Pereira; title: The mythical matrix in Wilson's plays / Sydné Mahone; title: Myth, memory and masks : Sankofa aesthetics in Wole Soyinka, August Wilson, and Earl Lovelace / Funso Aiyejina; title: For the warrior that he was : the fighting spirit in August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon; title: Our dramatic bildungsroman as an international Aide memoire : August Wilson's African American century cycle / Ladrica Menson-Furr; title: August Wilson on the stage in England : a salute to a colossus / Yvonne Brewster; title: Othello's dominion, immigrant domain / Wole Soyinka; title: Wole Soyinka's troupe, "Othello's dominion, immigrant domain" / Ọlásopé O. Oyèláràn; title: Elemental Larry Leon Hamlin / Arthur M. Reese.