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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Two Trains Running"”.
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Two Trains Running: Capture and Escape in the Racialized Train Cars of the Jim Crow South, 1893-1930
The role of the railroad in the modern American experience—and its role in making that experience modern—cannot be overstated. This thesis proposes to tell one of many possible railroad stories. By focusing on the historical and cultural relevance of a series of bodies in transit, I examine the …
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Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II
… 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, Pennsylvania's Hill District. …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… Movement as expressed through the characters in Two Trains Running. Finally, Chapter 7 covers the impact of gentrification in African-American communities as demonstrated in Radio Golf. In my conclusion I summarize the points I have demonstrated throughout this examination. I also connect my …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running , and Seven Guitars, on the other hand, is peopled with many whites, most of whom remain off-stage, but nonetheless play a tremendous role in the lives of his black characters. Wilson's vision of whiteness is homogeneous; he …