Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle

Patricia M. Gantt

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Theater, Performance, and Music History Theatre and Performance Studies American Literature and Culture

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In "Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle," Patricia M. Gantt offers an overview of Wilson's life and work, including his background, motivation, dramatic aesthetic, and themes. Taking each of the ten plays in the Pittsburgh Cycle in the order of its New York stage production, Gantt discusses the works' characters and recurring concerns. Throughout, she investigates Wilson's stated goal of drawing on black culture-in all its sacred and secular particularities-to create art. Her critique aims at suggesting possible fields of future inquiry for teachers and scholars, and assesses Wilson's numerous contributions to American dramatic tradition.

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1996The dramatic vision of August Wilson 1986Joe Turner's Come and Gone 1982Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2007The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson 2005August Wilson: a literary companion 1992Two Trains Running 2005King Hedley II 2013August Wilson

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