Publication

2006 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

71,750 words, Guess

Page Count

287 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCPS3573.I45677 Z65 2006
  • DDC812/.54

Description

"Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam, Jr., interprets Wilson's plays in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, and race and representation, arguing that Wilson seeks to reevaluate the past in order to understand the present. Elam also places Wilson's dramatic work in the context of contemporary African American literature, and looks at the function of music in Wilson's plays and in African American history. The book also explores the important but often overlooked ways in which Wilson incorporates African mythology into his portrait of twentieth-century African American history."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The past as present in the drama of August WilsonUniversity of Michigan Press2006

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