The past as present in the drama of August Wilson / by Elam, Harry Justin

The past as present in the drama of August Wilson / by Elam, Harry Justin

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The past as present in the drama of August Wilson / by Elam, Harry Justin

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Ma Rainey's black bottom : a play in two acts / by Wilson, August

Fences /

Theatre history studies, 2010. African and African American theatre past and present /

Table of Contents: “…., The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson /…”
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The problem of the color(blind) : racial transgression and the politics of black performance / by Catanese, Brandi Wilkins, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Bad manners : talking about race -- The end of race or the end of blackness? : August Wilson, Robert Brustein, and color-blind casting -- The limits of color blindness : interracial sexuality, Denzel Washington, and Hollywood film -- Transgressing tradition : Suzan-Lori Parks and black performance (as) theory -- Are we there yet? …”

The problem of the color(blind) : racial transgression and the politics of black performance / by Catanese, Brandi Wilkins, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Bad manners : talking about race -- The end of race or the end of blackness? : August Wilson, Robert Brustein, and color-blind casting -- The limits of color blindness : interracial sexuality, Denzel Washington, and Hollywood film -- Transgressing tradition : Suzan-Lori Parks and black performance (as) theory -- Are we there yet? …”
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Ground rules : baseball & myth / by Westbrook, Deeanne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : baseball and myth -- The myth of the gap -- August Wilson's Fences and the art of bricolage -- Paths of glory : baseball, key narratives, and the monomyth -- Mark Harris's Bang the drum slowly and the two stories -- Dimensions of the field of play -- Going back to the mother-land : W. …”

Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse / by Werner, Craig Hansen, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Tolson's Afro-modernist aesthetic -- Bigger's blues : Native son and the articulation of Afro-American modernism -- James Baldwin : politics and the gospel impulse -- Leon Forrest and the AACM : the jazz impulse and the Chicago Renaissance -- The burden and the binding song : August Wilson's neoclassical jazz -- Epilogue : Improvisations toward a new phrasing : West Afrocentrism, meta-funk, and the interiors of Jazz.…”

The Romare Bearden reader /

Table of Contents: “…"Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally -- Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins -- Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent -- The Negro artist and modern art -- The Negro artist's dilemma -- The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949 -- Rectangular structure in my montage paintings -- The Twenties and the Black Renaissance -- The 1930s : an art reminiscence -- Humility -- Encounters with African art -- Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson -- Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison -- The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander -- The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman -- Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer -- Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray -- The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue -- Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell -- Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto -- Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett -- Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price -- Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. …”
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The Romare Bearden reader /

Table of Contents: “…"Pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship" : an introductory essay / Robert O'Meally -- Putting something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins -- Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent -- The Negro artist and modern art -- The Negro artist's dilemma -- The Journal of Romare Bearden : 1947 to 1949 -- Rectangular structure in my montage paintings -- The Twenties and the Black Renaissance -- The 1930s : an art reminiscence -- Humility -- Encounters with African art -- Bearden : Black life on its own terms / August Wilson -- Abrupt stops and an unexpected liquidity : the aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison -- The genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander -- The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Between the shadow and the act / John Edgar Wideman -- Romare Bearden : African American modernism at mid-century / Kobena Mercer -- Bearden plays Bearden / Albert Murray -- The political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Circe in black : Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Conjure and collapse in the art of Romare Bearden / Rachael DeLue -- Changing, conjuring reality / Richard Powell -- Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy : coloring a story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto -- Impressions and improvisations : a look at the prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett -- Bearden's Caribbean dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price -- Sheer mastery : Romare Bearden's final year / Myron Schwartzman -- Romare Bearden, an indelible imprint / David C. …”

The Applause/Best plays theater yearbook of 1991-1992 : featuring the ten best plays of the season /

The American theatre reader : essays and conversations from American theatre magazine /

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Memory and cultural politics : new approaches to American ethnic literatures /

Table of Contents: “…Gaines's Of love and dust / Herman Beavers -- Memory and the matrix of history: the poetics of loss and recovery in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Gurleen Grewal -- The Role of memory in August Wilson's four-hundred-year autobiography / Sandra G. …”

Father comes home from the wars : parts 1, 2 & 3 / by Parks, Suzan-Lori

10,000 nights : highlights from 50 years of theatre-going / by Carlson, Marvin, 1935-

Table of Contents: “….#09 -- 2006 Rimini Protokoll's Wallenstein -- 2007 August Wilson's Radio Golf -- 2008 Signa's The Ruby Town Oracle -- 2009 The Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Romeo and Juliet -- 2010 The Passion Play at Oberammergau. -- Coda (2014): The Transport Group's Remember Mama.…”
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SOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader /

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