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Aunt Ester's children redeemed : journeys to freedom in August Wilson's ten plays of twentieth-century black America
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Aunt Ester's children redeemed : journeys to freedom in August Wilson's ten plays of twentieth-century black America/ Riley Keene Temple. |
| 개인저자 | Temple, Riley Keene,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Original 1498237827 9781498237826 |
| ISBN | 9781498237819 1498237819 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references. |
| 요약 | 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. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Wilson, AugustCriticism and interpretation. Wilson, August.fast -- |
| 일반주제명 | DRAMA / American LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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