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Fences

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087585
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fences written by August Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.

Fences

Author : August Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Fences written by August Wilson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

August Wilson's Fences

Author : Ladrica Menson-Furr
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441168443
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book August Wilson's Fences written by Ladrica Menson-Furr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and this play helped to earn him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "the African American Shakespeare."

May All Your Fences Have Gates

Author : Alan Nadel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877454281
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book May All Your Fences Have Gates written by Alan Nadel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 for 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. With 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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780241987834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom written by August Wilson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the great blues diva Ma Rainey is due to arrive at a run-down Chicago recording studio with her entourage to cut new sides of old favourites. Waiting for her are the black musicians in her band, and the white owners of the record company. A tense, searing account of racism in jazz-era America that the New Yorker called 'a genuine work of art'. Fences centres on Troy Maxson, a garbage collector, an embittered former baseball player and a proud, dominating father. When college athletic recruiters scout his teenage son, Troy struggles against his young son's ambition, his wife, who he understands less and less, and his own frustrated dreams.

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021842
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson written by Harry Justin Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade. Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness. Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087607
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Joe Turner's Come and Gone written by August Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.”—Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new world—and it will take more than the skill of the local “People Finder” to discover it. This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.

August Wilson

Author : Alan Nadel
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299356
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book August Wilson written by Alan Nadel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this collection of 15 essays are academics in English, theater, and African American studies. They focus on the second half of Wilson's century cycle of plays, examining each play within the larger context of the cycle and highlighting themes within and across particular plays. Some topics discussed include business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean, contesting black male responsibilities in Jitney, the holyistic blues of Seven Guitars, violence as history lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II, and ritual death and Wilson's female Christ. The book offers an index of plays, critics, and theorists, but not a subject index. Nadel is chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky.

The Foreigner

Author : Larry Shue
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204183
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Foreigner written by Larry Shue and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by Froggy LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time Froggy has brought along a friend, a pathologically s

Two Trains Running

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087623
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Two Trains Running written by August Wilson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.

Fences

Author : August Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580499941
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Fences written by August Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think Outside the Book! By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching mo

The Nerd

Author : Larry Shue
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822208112
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Nerd written by Larry Shue and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vie

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573681134
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Ma Rainey's Black Bottom written by August Wilson and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1985 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording session by black blues great Ma Rainey for white-owned studio, setting for exploration of racial relations and conflicts.

The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson

Author : Sandra Garrett Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson written by Sandra Garrett Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson, Sandra Shannon follows the playwright's path through each decade. From the outset, she considers how he uses poetry, the blues, Romare Bearden's art, and other cultural artifacts to lead him to imagined sites of pain and resignation, healing and renewal in the collective memory of black America. It is in these places of defeat and victory, Shannon demonstrates, that Wilson creates drama, as he excavates, examines, and reclaims the past. Although Wilson diverts attention away from factual details and focuses on the human costs of family dislocation, chronic unemployment, or cultural alienation, Shannon illustrates how fully the plays are grounded in credible historical contexts - from slavery and Emancipation to the aftermath of World War II, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War. Moreover, she identifies and analyzes the themes that recur in some plays and branch off in new directions in others - including the dislocations that attended black migration to the North and communication gaps between black men and women. As she examines each of the plays in Wilson's dramatic history of the African American experience, Shannon conveys the broad range of his dramatic vision."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Author : Matthew Teutsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496827848
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Frank Yerby written by Matthew Teutsch and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby’s life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; readership and reception; representations of masculinity and patriotism; film adaptations; and engagement with race, identity, and religion. The contributors to this collection work to rectify the misunderstandings of Yerby’s work that have relegated him to the sidelines and, ultimately, begin a reexamination of the importance of “the prince of pulpsters” in American literature. It was Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America, who infamously dismissed Frank Yerby (1916–1991) as “the prince of pulpsters.” Like Bone, many literary critics at the time criticized Yerby’s lack of focus on race and the stereotypical treatment of African American characters in his books. This negative labeling continued to stick to Yerby even as he gained critical success, first with The Foxes of Harrow, the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, and later as he began to publish more political works like Speak Now and The Dahomean. However, the literary community cannot continue to ignore Frank Yerby and his impact on American literature. More than a fiction writer, Yerby should be put in conversation with such contemporaneous writers as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and more.

The Grandissimes

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grandissimes written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How I Learned What I Learned

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780573705892
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book How I Learned What I Learned written by August Wilson and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. From stories about his first jobs to his first loves and his experiences with racism, Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle. How I Learned What I Learned gives an inside look into one of the most celebrated playwriting voices of the twentieth century.