オーガスト・ウィルソンの演劇：研究便覧 The Theatre of August Wilson (Critical Companions)

Nadel, Alan/ Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J. (EDT)/ Lonergan, Patrick (EDT)

Methuen Drama（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781472534439
• DDC分類 812.54

Full Description

The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography.

Keenly aware of the musical paradigms informing Wilson's dramatic technique, Nadel shows how jazz and, particularly, the blues provide the structural mechanisms that allow Wilson to examine alternative notions of time, property, and law. Wilson's improvisational logics become crucial to expressing his notions of black identity and resituating the relationship of literal to figurative in the African American community.

The final two chapters include contributions by scholars Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Donald E. Pease

Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

1 Becoming August Wilson 3

2 History and/as Performance: The Drama of African American Historiography 17

3 Cutting the Historical Record, Recording the Blues: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 37

4 Beginning Again, Again: Gem of the Ocean and Jitney 51

5 The Boundaries of Property and the Properties of Humanity: Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone 67

6 The Properties of the Piano and the Legacy of Human Property: The Piano Lesson 87

7 Urban Renewal by Any Means Necessary: Two Trains Running 109

8 "Sad Stories of the Death of Kings": Seven Guitars and King Hedley II 127

9 The Century That Can't Fix Nothing with the Law: Radio Golf 139

10 Critical and Performance Perspectives 159
Seven Guitars and King Hedley II: August Wilson's Lazarus Complex Donald E. Pease 159
Performance Politics and Authenticity: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Jitney Harry J. Elam, Jr. 179

Notes 199

References 211

Notes on Contributors 215

Index 216