Name: May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essyas on the Drama of August Wilson
Author: Nadel, Alan
ISBN: 9780877454397


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER Available as an ebook at: Apple iBooks Barnes & Noble Nook Chegg Inc eBooks Corp. Google Play	May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essyas on the Drama of August Wilson edited by Alan Nadel University of Iowa Press, 1993 eISBN: 978-1-58729-164-7 \| Paper: 978-0-87745-439-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3573.I45677Z78 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 812.54 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial to Wilson's canon: the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of drama. The collection includes essays by virtually all the scholars who have currently published on Wilson along with many established and newer scholars of drama and/or African American literature. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Alan Nadel is the Bryan Chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches literature and film. He is the editor of May All Your Fences Have Gates(Iowa, 1993) and the author of Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon (Iowa, 1991), Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age, Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America, and Television in Black and White America: Race and National Identity. TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS Preface Nadel, Alan Introduction Nadel, Alan The History Lesson: Authenticity and Anachronism in August Wilson's Plays Flèche, Anne August Wilson's Burden: The Function of Neoclassical Jazz Werner, Craig Speaking of Ma Rainey / Talking about the Blues Adell, Sandra Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson Timpane, John Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone Nadel, Alan Ghosts on the Piano: August Wilson and the Representation of Black American History Morales, Michael American History as “Loud Talking” in Two Trains Running Rocha, Mark William Romare Bearden, August Wilson, and the Traditions of African Performance Fishman, Joan The Ground on Which I Stand: August Wilson's Perspective on African American Women Shannon, Sandra G. August Wilson's Women Elam, Jr., Harry J. August Wilson's Gender Lesson Kubitschek, Missy Dehn I Want a Black Director Wilson, August “The Crookeds with the Straights”: Fences, Race, and the Politics of Adaptation Awkward, Michael Annotated Bibliography of Works by and about August Wilson Shannon, Sandra G. Notes on Contributors Index to the Plays REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: African Americans in literature \| August Wilson \| Historical drama, American \| Nadel, Alan \| Wilson, August See other titles from University of Iowa Press

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