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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Wilson, August"”.
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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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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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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 …