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An In-Depth Study of the Major Plays of African American Playwright August Wilson Vernacularizing the Blues on Stage

Author: Wang, Qun
SKU: PMRT.GEN.9425.00438

$219.65

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780773479425
Publication Date: 1999
Condition: New

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Exploress Wilson’s emphasis on African American language forms, histories and identities, particularly examining his linguistic and metaphoric borrowing from the blues. It examines the aesthetic debates on African American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. After establishing the cultural and artistic frame, the study then devotes a chapter each to Wilson’s most celebrated plays: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, and Seven Guitars.

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