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 African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage / by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Rituals of repair: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog --Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water.…”
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The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage / by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Rituals of repair: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone -- 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog --Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water.…”
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Aristotle and Black Drama : A Theater of Civil Disobedience / by Rankine, Patrice D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove : The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form : Eugene O'Neill's All God's chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's "Spectacle" and August Wilson's "Spectacle character" : Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing : Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Civil disobedience, truth and reconciliation, and the cosmopolitan citizen : Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.…”
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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. …”
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Visions of tragedy in modern American drama : from O'Neill to the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Abbotson -- Arthur Miller (1915-2005) / Stephen Marino -- Edward Albee (1928-2016) / Natka Bianchini -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) / Dierdre Osborne -- Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) / Harvey Young -- Adrienne Kennedy (1931-) / Werner Sollors -- August Wilson (1945-2005) / Sandra G. Shannon -- Sam Shepard (1943-2017) / Shannon Blake Skelton -- David Mamet (1947-) / Brenda Murphy -- Marsha Norman (1947-) / David Palmer -- Tony Kushner (1956-) / Claire Gleitman -- Suzan-Lori Parks (1963-) / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- American theatre since 1990 / Toby Zinman.…”

A multicultural and multifaceted study of ideologies and conflicts related to the complex realities and fictions of nation and identity represented in contemporary literature writt...

Table of Contents: “…NATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE NOVELS OF CHINUA ACHEBENOTES TO PART II; PART III; CANADIAN LITERARY IDENTITY REVISITED; UNMASKING NATIONALISM; FRAMING AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURALIDENTITY; AFRICA AND AMERICA IN AUGUST WILSON'S DRAMA; THE CAJUNS IDENTITY IN TIM GAUTREAUX'S SHORT STORIES; NARRATING THE NATION IN NAVAJO POETRY AND STORYTELLING; E PLURIBUS UNUM; NOTES TO PART III; CONTRIBUTORS.…”
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Focus on playwrights : portraits and interviews /

Table of Contents: “…Anderson -- What we were, what we are: a dialogue with Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang -- August Wilson -- George Abbott -- Romulus Linney -- Nicky Silver -- Wendy Wasserstein -- A.R. …”

Focus on playwrights : portraits and Interviews / by Johann, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Anderson -- What we were, what we are: a dialogue with Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang -- August Wilson -- George Abbott -- Romulus Linney -- Nicky Silver -- Wendy Wasserstein -- A.R. …”
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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. …”

South of tradition : essays on African American literature / by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.…”

South of tradition : essays on African American literature / by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Woman and survival strategies in Ann Petry's The street -- Chocklit geography: Raymond Andrews's mythical soul -- The necessary binding: prison experiences in three August Wilson plays -- Hands beyond the grave: Henry Dumas's influence on Toni Morrison -- Salting the land but not the imagination: William Melvin Kelley's A different drummer -- Transformations of the land in Randall Kenan's "The foundations of the earth" -- Expectations too great: the failure of racial calling in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth -- Ugly legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and earlier: Soul food and new Negroes.…”
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African theatre.

Table of Contents: “…Performing Black Canadas : the trans-American imaginary of Black Canadian theatre / Maureen Moynagh -- The theory of Ase : the persistence of African performance aesthetics in the North American diaspora : August Wilson, Ntozake Shange & Djanet Sears / Esiaba Irobi -- African presence in Cuban theatre / Cariad Astles -- Marginality, sacrifice & transgression : mothers & rebellious women in two plays by Cuba's Eugenio Hernández Espinosa / Conrad James -- Interculture on stage : Afro-Italian theatre / Sabrina Brancato -- Black British theatre in London 1972-89 : a brief overview / Yvonne Brewster -- Talking about Something dark ; an interview with Lemn Sissay / Jane Plastow -- Jews, blood & Ethiopian dance in Israel : critical race theory & the postcolonial / Rob Baum -- Nature in migration & the 'natural migrant' : performing African settlement in Tasmanian community arts / Mary Anderson -- Khaled El-Sawy's Messing with the mind : translator's introduction / Mona Khedr -- Messing with the mind : a political satire / Khaled El-Sawy -- Book reviews.…”
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Plays for the theatre : a drama anthology /

One on one : the best monologues for mature actors /

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The Routledge introduction to American drama / by Thifault, Paul

Table of Contents: “…(1962) by Edward Albee -- Funnyhouse of a negro (1964) by Adrienne Kennedy -- Fences (1985) by August Wilson -- Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes (1993-94) by Tony Kushner -- Sisters Matsumoto (1998) by Philip Kan Gotanda -- Topdog/underdog (2002) by Suzan-Lori Parks -- Water by the spoonful (2012) by Quiara Alegría Hudes -- An octoroon (2014) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.…”
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Solo! : the best monologues of the 80's (men) /

Table of Contents: “…Wolfe -- Dancing bears / Stuart Browne -- Danny and the deep blue sea / John Patrick Shanley -- The dresser / Ronald Harwood -- The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance -- End of the world / Arthur Kopit -- Fences / August Wilson -- Five of us / Len Jenkin -- FOB / David Henry Hwang -- Fool for love / Sam Shepard -- Funhouse / Eric Bogosian -- Ghost on fire / Michael Weller -- Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet -- Herringbone / Tom Cone -- Hunting cockroaches / Janusz Glowacki -- Hurlyburly / David Rabe -- The incredibly famous Willy Rivers / Stephen Metcalfe -- It's only a play / Terrence McNally -- The jail diary of Albie Sachs / David Edgar -- A knife in the heart / Susan Yankowitz -- Les liasons dangereuses / Christopher Hampton -- A lie of the mind / Sam Shepard -- Lydie breeze / John Guare -- Ma Rainey's black bottom / August Wilson -- Marco Polo sings a solo / John Guare -- The marriage of Bette and Boo / Christopher Durang -- Motel chronicles / Sam Shepard -- My dinner with André / Wallace Shawn & André Gregory -- Native speech / Eric Overmyer -- The normal heart / Larry Kramer -- One for the road / Harold Pinter -- Open admissions / Shirley Lauro -- Orphans / Lyle Kessler -- A piece of monologue / Samuel Beckett -- Plenty / David Hare --Pravda / Howard Brenton, David Hare -- A prelude to death in Venice / Lee Breuer -- The professional Frenchman / John Wellman -- The real thing / Tom Stoppard -- The resurrection of Lady Lester / OyamO -- Rivkala's ring / Spalding Gray -- Road / Jim Cartwright -- Safe sex / Harvey Fierstein -- The sex organ / John Quincy Long -- Slam! …”

100 greatest American plays / by Hischak, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…Hartley Manners ; The Philadelphia story (1939) by Philip Barry ; Picnic (1953) by William Inge ; The piano lesson (1990) by August Wilson ; Proof (2000) by David Auburn ; The rainmaker (1954) by N. …”

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

100 greatest American plays /

Table of Contents: “…Hartley Manners ; The Philadelphia story (1939) by Philip Barry ; Picnic (1953) by William Inge ; The piano lesson (1990) by August Wilson ; Proof (2000) by David Auburn ; The rainmaker (1954) by N. …”
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