Introduction -- Becoming August Wilson -- History and/as performance: the drama of African-American historiography -- Cutting the historical record, recording the blues: Ma Rainey's black bottom -- Beginning again, again: Gem of the ocean and Jitney -- The boundaries of property and the properties of humanity: Fences and Joe Turner's Come and gone -- The properties of the piano and the legacy of human property: The piano lesson -- Urban renewal by any means necessary: Two trains running -- "Sad stories of the death of kings": Seven guitars and King Hedley II -- The century that can't fix nothing with the law: Radio golf -- Critical and performance perspectives. Guitars and King Hedley II: August Wilson's Lazarus complex / Donald E. Pease -- Performance politics and authenticity: Joe Turner's come and gone and Jitney / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
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