August Wilson : a casebook

Elkins, Marilyn Roberson. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0815309228 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: xxi, 228 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Garland, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Marilyn Elkins -- August Wilson and the four B's : influences / Mark William Rocha -- Wilson and Fugard : politics and art / Joanne Gordon -- The Bb burden : the invisibility of Ma Rainey's black bottom / Eileen Crawford -- August Wilson's folk traditions / Trudier Harris -- Ghosts from "Down There" : the Southernness of August Wilson / Patricia Gantt -- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost : from the local to the mythical in August Wilson / Pamela Jean Monaco -- Approaches to Africa : the poetics of memory and the body in two August Wilson plays / Gunilla Theander Kester -- Ma Rainey and the Boyz : gender ideology in August Wilson's Broadway canon / Kim Marra -- Developing his song : August Wilson's Fences / Joan Fishman -- Subtle imposition : the Lloyd Richards-August Wilson formula / Sandra G. Shannon -- Alternatives... opposites... convergences : an interview with Lloyd Richards / Richard Pettengill -- Historical perspective : an interview with August Wilson / Richard Pettengill.