Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 August Wilson: the ground on which he stood
- 2 Been here and gone
- 3 August Wilson’s relationship to black theatre: community, aesthetics, history and race
- 4 Music and mythology in August Wilson’s plays
- 5 Gem of the Ocean and the redemptive power of history
- 6 Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
- 7 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: cutting the historical record, dramatizing a blues CD
- 8 A piano and its history: family and transcending family
- 9 The tragedy of Seven Guitars
- 10 Safe at home?: August Wilson’s Fences
- 11 Two Trains Running: blood on the tracks
- 12 Jitney, folklore and responsibility
- 13 King Hedley II: in the midst of all this death
- 14 Radio Golf: the courage of his convictions - survival, success and spirituality
- 15 Critics on August Wilson
- 16 An interview with August Wilson
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 August Wilson: the ground on which he stood
- 2 Been here and gone
- 3 August Wilson’s relationship to black theatre: community, aesthetics, history and race
- 4 Music and mythology in August Wilson’s plays
- 5 Gem of the Ocean and the redemptive power of history
- 6 Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
- 7 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: cutting the historical record, dramatizing a blues CD
- 8 A piano and its history: family and transcending family
- 9 The tragedy of Seven Guitars
- 10 Safe at home?: August Wilson’s Fences
- 11 Two Trains Running: blood on the tracks
- 12 Jitney, folklore and responsibility
- 13 King Hedley II: in the midst of all this death
- 14 Radio Golf: the courage of his convictions - survival, success and spirituality
- 15 Critics on August Wilson
- 16 An interview with August Wilson
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson , pp. 214 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007