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Research Project Research Project about about
AUGUST WILSON AUGUST WILSON
LIT 363-004LIT 363-004Professor WellsProfessor Wells
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Examples of his work:•Fences – 1986•The Piano Lesson – 1990•Joe Turner’s Come and Go - 1986
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BiographyBiography
• Born on April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Wrote first play, Jitney, in 1979
• Married Judy Oliver in 1981
• Won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 1987 for Fences
• Won another Pulitzer Prize in 1990, for The Piano Lesson
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Biography (cont’d)Biography (cont’d)
Divorced Judy Oliver in 1990
His collection entitled Three Plays by August Wilson, was published in book form in 1991.
Two Trains Running premiered in 1992
Married a costume designer called Constanza Romero in 1994
Died of liver cancer on October 2, 2005, in Seattle, Washington.
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Concerns regarding ethnic or Concerns regarding ethnic or minority issuesminority issues
• Self-authentication is not possible for African-Americans
• Advocates for amalgamation of ideas and thoughts from all ethnic groups in America
• Reclamation and re-inscription of black cultural legacy into the American society.
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Examples from plExamples from playsays
• In his play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1991) , August Wilson suggests that without the Reclamation of the African cultural legacy, African Americans cannot self authenticate themselves.
• In his play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1991), he dramatizes how the black Americans need to forge their identity into an identity that is African-American.
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Three relevant quotes from Three relevant quotes from interviewsinterviews
• “Blacks don’t melt in a pot… Because we are very visible minority… We have a culture.”
• “I am an African, and I can participate in this society as an African”
• “Let’s look at this again and see where we’ve come from and how we’ve gotten where we are now. I think if you know that, it helps determine how to proceed with the future”
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Three unique conveThree unique conventions of his ntions of his workwork
• August Wilson was an American playwright and he has lots of wonderful work.
• Among Wilson's great work, some best known plays are;
• Fences - 1985 • Won Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award
• The Piano Lesson - 1990 • Won Pulitzer Prize & New York Drama Critics'
Circle Award. • Joe Turner's Come and Gone - 1986
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Recent production of ARecent production of Augustugust Wilson’s “The Piano LeWilson’s “The Piano Lesson”sson”
• This production was done on May 11th, at the Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd.
• It explores more significant themes like how balancing of the past and the present can be done and what it means in America to be black.
• The following are the quotes of his work;
• “Can't you see our soul is with this piano?”
• “That's in the past. I want to trade this wood for land. I'm trying to put my mark on the world, live my life my own way,“
• “That's when I discovered the power of death. See, a nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you.”
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