Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the...
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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle, the plays, which portrayed the struggles of African-Americans, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, a Tony Award for Best Play, and seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle is the first volume devoted to the last five plays of the cycle individually-Jitney, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf-and in the context of Wilson's entire body of work. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beginning Again, Again :Business in the Street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean -- Contesting Black Male Responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney -- Challenging the Stereotypes of Black Manhood: The Hidden Transcript in Jitney -- The Holyistic Blues of Seven Guitars -- August Wilson's Lazarus Complex -- If We Must Die: Violence as History Lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II -- You Can't Make Life Happen without a Woman: Paternity and the Pitfalls of Structural Designin King Hedley II and Seven Guitars -- Turn Your Lamp Down Low! Aunt Ester Dies in King Hedley II. Now What? -- Ritual Death and Wilson's Female Christ -- Miss Tyler's Two Bodies: Aunt Ester and the Legacy of Time -- August Wilson and the Demands of Capital -- Finite and Final Interruptions: Using Time in Radio Golf -- An Exercise in Peripheral Vision: Loyalties, Ironies, and Sports in Radio Golf -- Radio Golf in the Age of Obama -- Appendix: Discography for Seven Guitars -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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Beginning again, again: business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the ocean / Alan NadelContesting black male responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney / Dana A. Williams -- Challenging the stereotypes of black manhood: the hidden transcript in Jitney / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon -- The holyistic blues of Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy -- August Wilson's Lazarus complex / Donald E. Pease -- If we must die: violence as history lesson in Seven guitars and King Hedley II / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- You can't make life happen without a woman: paternity and the pitfalls of structural design in King Hedley II and Seven guitars / Herman Beavers -- Turn your lamp down low! Aunt Ester dies in King Hedley II. Now what? / Sandra G. Shannon -- Ritual death and Wilson's female Christ / Vivian Gist Spencer and Yvonne Chambers -- Miss Tyler's two bodies: Aunt Ester and the legacy of time / Barbara Lewis -- August Wilson and the demands of capital / Nathan Grant -- Finite and final interruptions: using time in Radio golf / David Lacroix -- An exercise in peripheral vision: loyalties, ironies, and sports in Radio golf / Anthony Stewart -- Radio golf in the age of Obama / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Appendix: Discography for Seven guitars / Steven C. Tracy.
