May All Your Fences Have Gates

Download or read book May All Your Fences Have Gates written by Alan Nadel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Wilson along with many established and newer scholars of drama and/or African American literature.