August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author''s ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson''s narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they ...
Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author''s ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson''s narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they ...