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"August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is as old as the number of years blacks have been on these shores. All of the characters in the ten-play cycle are her children. Their search is through circumstance and adventure, certainly. This author demonstrates how Wilson uses language--poetry, the blues--to bring each play's characters to a point of wholeness, redemption, and freedom, not from history, but ennobled and strengthened by it. Wilson employs fundamental theological doctrines to exhort Aunt Ester's children to remember by whom and how they were freed and made whole."--Back cover.

Wilson, August --- Kittel, Frederick August --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Historical drama, American --- Literature and history --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism. --- Wilson, August --- Kittel, Frederick August --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial to Wilson's canon: the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of drama. The collection includes essays by virtually all the scholars who have currently published on Wi

Wilson, August --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Historical drama, American --- Théâtre historique américain --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Théâtre historique américain --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- African Americans in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Kittel, Frederick August