Contents
Issue 36.2 (Spring 2009)
August Wilson
Patricia M. Gantt ...................................................................................1
Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle
Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle
Sandra G. Shannon ............................................................................26
Framing African American Cultural Identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson’s 10-Play Cycle
Jermaine Singleton ............................................................................40
Some Losses Remain with Us: Impossible Mourning and the Prevalence of Ritual in August Wilson’s
The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson
Richard Noggle
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“…if you live long enough the boat will turn around”: The Birth and Death of Community in Three Plays by August Wilson
“…if you live long enough the boat will turn around”: The Birth and Death of Community in Three Plays by August Wilson
Cynthia L. Caywood and Carlton Floyd ...............................................74
“She Make You Right with Yourself”: Aunt Ester, Masculine Loss and Cultural Redemption in August Wilson’s Cycle Plays
Sinikka Grant ........................................................................................................................................96
“Their baggage a long line of separation and dispersement”: Haunting and Trans-generational Trauma in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Sergei Burbank ...................................................................................................................................117
The Shattered Mirror: What August Wilson Means and Willed to Mean
