{"product_id":"9780472021840","title":"The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eFences\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMa Rainey's Black Bottom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade.\u003cbr\u003e Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness.\u003cbr\u003e Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105879113968,"sku":"9780472021840","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472021840_p0.jpg?v=1763706874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472021840","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}