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- catalog abstract ""Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson has created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. He forces readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century." "This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies, and themes from the work on one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources and includes suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of forty topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13327992.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson has created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. He forces readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century." "This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies, and themes from the work on one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources and includes suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of forty topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Chronology of Wilson's life and works -- Wilson's genealogy -- August Wilson : a literary companion -- Appendix A: Time line of Hill District residents and events -- Appendix B: Writing and research topics -- Bibiography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 266 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "August Wilson.".
- catalog identifier "0786419032 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780786419036".
- catalog isFormatOf "August Wilson.".
- catalog isPartOf "McFarland literary companions ; 1".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co.,".
- catalog relation "August Wilson.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature Handbooks, manuals, etc.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Historical drama, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS3573.I45677 Z89 2004".
- catalog subject "Wilson, August Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.".
- catalog subject "Wilson, August Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chronology of Wilson's life and works -- Wilson's genealogy -- August Wilson : a literary companion -- Appendix A: Time line of Hill District residents and events -- Appendix B: Writing and research topics -- Bibiography -- Index.".
- catalog title "August Wilson : a literary companion / Mary Ellen Snodgrass.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".