An edition of Gem of the ocean
(2015)
Gem of the ocean
essays on August Wilson in the Black diaspora
First edition.
by Ọlasope O. Oyelaran, Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, and Funso Aiyejina
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"The edition editors ... gathered scholarly, reflective, and creative discourses that honor the historical legacy of American Theatre colossus August Wilson and the impact he made on stages worldwide"--Page 4 of cover.
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Gem of the ocean: essays on August Wilson in the Black diaspora
2015, Third World Press
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- First edition.
0883783487 9780883783481
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Ọlásopé Oyèláràn
Invocation : to raise the dead and foretell the future / Ed Bullins
Essentials of the ground on which August Wilson stands / August Wilson
Duty : reflections on August Wilson's vision of Black theatre / Kwame S. Dawes
The ground on which August Wilson stands : location and agency in Afrocentric theatre / Barbara J. Molette and Carlton W. Molette
Witnessing : the invention of myth as resistance and healing in the plays of August Wilson / Kwame S. Dawes
August Wilson's race matters / Harry J. Elam Jr.
Decoding the African in African-American : interpretations in the LSU production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Femi Euba
Music and mythology in Wilson's plays / Kim Pereira
The mythical matrix in Wilson's plays / Sydné Mahone
Myth, memory and masks : Sankofa aesthetics in Wole Soyinka, August Wilson, and Earl Lovelace / Funso Aiyejina
For the warrior that he was : the fighting spirit in August Wilson / Sandra G. Shannon
Our dramatic bildungsroman as an international Aide memoire : August Wilson's African American century cycle / Ladrica Menson-Furr
August Wilson on the stage in England : a salute to a colossus / Yvonne Brewster
Othello's dominion, immigrant domain / Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka's troupe, "Othello's dominion, immigrant domain" / Ọlásopé O. Oyèláràn
Elemental Larry Leon Hamlin / Arthur M. Reese.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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