| Description |
85 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Bloom's major dramatists
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Bloom's major dramatists.
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| Bibliography |
List of works by A. Wilson: pages 79-80. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83) and index. |
| Contents |
Critical Views on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. James C. McKelly on the marketability of black culture ; Eileen Crawford on the play as Greek Tragedy ; Sandra Adell on Ma's and Levee's black and white loyalties ; Sandra G. Shannon on the play as blues composition ; Kim Pereira on the collision of blues and swing ; Harry J. Elam, Jr. on Ma Rainey's sexuality -- Critical views on Fences. Christine Birdwell on Scenes as Innings ; Pamela Jean Monaco on the Spectre of Death ; John Timpane on pre- and post- war athletics ; Sandra G. Shannon on race relations in the 1950's ; Peter Wolfe on the Strength of Troy ; Joseph H. Wessling on the play as metacomedy ; Anna S. Blumenthal on the instructive potential of Troy's stories -- Critical views on Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Patricia Gantt on southern personalities in the play ; Missy Dehn Kubitschek on Bertha's and Bynum's Shamanism ; Trudier Harris on africanizing the audience ; Douglas Anderson on Afro-Baptist and Biblical sources for Bynum's conversion narrative ; Sandra G. Shannon on Shiny Man as surrogate God ; Mary L. Bogumil on the cultural and etymological origins of the Juba -- Critical views on Two Trains Running. Lisa Wilde on chance and the occult ; Kim Marra on Risa and the black female self-hatred ; Mary William Rocha on overhearing Holloway ; Sandra G. Shannon on the legacy of Malcolm X ; Kim Pereira on the symbolic death of the civil rights movement ; Qun Wang on heroism in the play. |
| Subject |
Wilson, August -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wilson, August. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Historical drama, American -- History and criticism.
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Historical drama, American. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0791063623 alkaline paper |
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