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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"August Wilson"”.
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"This Is Me Right Here": August Wilson and Pittsburgh's Hill District
This project highlights the connections between August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle and the history of property, ownership, and housing in the real world Hill District where Wilson was raised and set almost all his plays. The project examines seven of Wilson's plays in relation to the history that …
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From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
My study examines the playwrights August Wilson and Tony Kushner as "political" artists whose work, while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind of misguided, dangerous individualism that precludes "interconnection." I …
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The Traumatized/traumatizing Subject In Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, And August Wilson
… in Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson</i> explores how drama, as a genre, is particularly suited for capturing aspects of trauma in ways that other genres cannot; this argument reinforces that trauma must be studied within the humanities, specifically within literature …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… of Eugene O'Neill and the white portraiture of August Wilson. The work of both playwrights attests to their deep and consistent involvement with their Racial Other, who resurfaces in play after play. Maintaining that the United States resembles a postcolonial society, I advance my critical …
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Preserving the Spirit of African Storytelling in the Pittsburgh Cycle
<p>This thesis will investigate and examine how August Wilson incorporated African storytelling ceremonials inside of <em>Gem of the Ocean</em> and Joe Turner’s <em>Come and Gone</em>. By studying the mannerisms and characteristics of Aunt Ester (<em>Gem of the Ocean</em>) and Bynum Walker (Joe …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of the phonograph, tape, and LPs. I contend that the development of sound recording technology not only shaped many of …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
<p>This dissertation undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and interdisciplinary in scope, I illuminate the ways in which black literature …
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Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II
<p>This paper explores Black male characters in August Wilson's <em>Two Trains Running</em> and <em>King Hedley II</em>. Characters in these plays seek personal autonomy through economic stability. They seek these things during the turbulent times of the 1960's and 1980's in Pittsburgh, …