Title: The past as present in the drama of August Wilson
First published: 2004
Description: "Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam, Jr., interprets Wilson's plays in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, and race and representation, arguing that Wilson seeks to reevaluate the past in order to understand the present. Elam also places Wilson's dramatic work in the context of contemporary African American literature, and looks at the function of music in Wilson's plays and in African American history.

The book also explores the important but often overlooked ways in which Wilson incorporates African mythology into his portrait of twentieth-century African American history."--Jacket.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Literature and history, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, American Historical drama, Historical drama, American, Historical drama, history and criticism, Wilson, august, 1945-2005
Places: United States
People: August Wilson