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Title:

Gem of the ocean : essays on August Wilson in the Black diaspora / edited by ̀l©Łsop©♭ O. Oy©·l©Łr©n and Kwame S. Dawes.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Third World Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Wilson, August--Criticism and interpretation.
African American dramatists--History and criticism.
Historical drama, American--History and criticism.
American drama--African American authors.
Black theater--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora--History.

Other Authors:

Oyelaran, ̀lasope O. (̀lasope Oyediji), editor.
Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, 1962- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / ̀l©Łsop©♭ Oy©·l©Łr©n -- Invocation : to raise the dead and foretell the future / Ed Bullins -- Essentials of the ground on which August Wilson stands / August Wilson -- Duty : reflections on August Wilson's vision of Black theatre / Kwame S. Dawes -- The ground on which August Wilson stands : location and agency in Afrocentric theatre / Barbara J. Molette and Carlton W. Molette -- Witnessing : the invention of myth as resistance and healing in the plays of August Wilson / Kwame S. Dawes -- August Wilson's race matters / Harry J. Elam Jr. -- Decoding the African in African-American : interpretations in the LSU production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Femi Euba -- Music and mythology in Wilson's plays / Kim Pereira -- The mythical matrix in Wilson's plays / Sydn©♭ Mahone -- Myth, memory and masks : Sankofa aesthetics in Wole Soyinka, August Wilson, and Earl Lovelace / Funso Aiyejina -- For the warrior that he was : the fighting spirit in August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon -- Our dramatic bildungsroman as an international Aide memoire : August Wilson's African American century cycle / Ladrica Menson-Furr -- August Wilson on the stage in England : a salute to a colossus / Yvonne Brewster -- Othello's dominion, immigrant domain / Wole Soyinka -- Wole Soyinka's troupe, "Othello's dominion, immigrant domain" / ̀l©Łsop©♭ O. Oy©·l©Łr©n -- Elemental Larry Leon Hamlin / Arthur M. Reese.

Summary:

"The edition editors ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

0883783487
9780883783481

OCLC:

(OCoLC)922558538

LCCN:

2015947306

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)