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Title:

August Wilson and Black aesthetics / edited by Sandra Shannon and Dana Williams.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

vi, 225 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Wilson, August--Aesthetics.
Historical drama, American--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Aesthetics, American.
Aesthetics, Black.

Other Authors:

Shannon, Sandra Garrett, 1952-
Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I. Black aesthetics as theory, art, and ideology. The development of African American dramatic theory : W.E.B DuBois to August Wilson-- hand to hand! / Mikell Pinkney -- Rita Dove's Mother love : revising the Black aesthetic : through the lens of western discourse / Tracey L. Walters -- The Ifa paradigm : reading the spirit in Tina McElroy Ansa's Baby of the family / Georgene Bess Montgomery -- Just 'cause (or just cause) : on August Wilson's case for a Black theater ? John Valery White -- II. Black aesthetics and interdisciplinary Black arts. "Keeping it real" : August Wilson and hip hop / Harry J. Flam, Jr. -- Giving voice and vent to African American culture : Katherine Dunham's struggle for culture ownership in Mambo (1954) / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- The Mumia Project : theater activism at Howard University / Sybil J. Roberts -- III. August Wilson's plays and Black aesthetics. Phantom limbs dancing Juba rites in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Com and Gone and The Piano Lesson / Reggie Young -- Speaking of voice and August Wilson's women / Tara T. Green -- Using Black rage to elucidate African and African American identity in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1911) / C. Patrick Tyndall -- IV. Current, unpublished interviews that speak to aesthetic issues raised in "The ground on which I stand." The ground on which he stands : Charles S. Dutton on August Wilson / Yolanda Williams Page -- A conversation with August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon and Dana A. Williams -- A liberating prayer : a lovingsong for Mumia / Sybil J. Roberts August Wilson and Black aesthetics / Sandra G. Shannon.

ISBN:

9781403964069
1403964068

LCCN:

2003068822

Locations:

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

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)