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Awkward, Michael. "`The Crookeds with the Straights': Fences, Race, and the
Politics of Adaptation." May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays
on the Drama of August Wilson. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa
City: U of Iowa P, 1993.
Barnes, Clive. "Piano Lesson Hits All the Right Keys." New York Post
17 April
1990. Rpt. In
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 63. 455.
Brustein, Robert. "The Lesson of The Piano Lesson." The New Republic 21 May
1990. 28-30.
Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 63. 458.
Downing, Michael. Restoring the Myths:
Converting Stereotype to Archetype in Five Plays of August Wilson.
Dissertation. 1997.
Gantt, Patricia. "Ghosts from `Down There': The Southerness of August Wilson."
August Wilson: A Case Study. Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
Devries, Hillary. "A Song in Search of Itself." American Theater. January, 1987:
22-26.
Feingold, Michael. "The Fall of Troy." The Village Voice. 7 April 1987. Rpt. in
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 50. 270.
Fishman, Joan. "Developing His Song: August Wilson's Fences." August Wilson: A
Case Study. Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
---. "Romare Bearden and August Wilson." May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays
on the Drama of August Wilson. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993.
145.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self.
New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
---. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New
York: Oxford UP, 1988.
Gantt, Patricia. "Ghosts from `Down There': The Southerness of August Wilson."
August
Wilson: A Case Study. Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
Harris, Trudier. "August Wilson's Folk Traditions." August Wilson: A Case Study.
Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
Henry, William A. "A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime." Time 30 Jan. 1989. 69. Rpt. In
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 63. 454-55.
King, Robert L. "Recent Drama." The Massachusetts Review Spring 1988. 87-97.
Rpt. In
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 63. 452-53.
Morales, Michael. "Ghosts on the Piano: August Wilson and the Representation of
Black
American History." May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August
Wilson. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993. 108.
Nadel, Alan. "Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in
Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone." May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays
on the Drama of August Wilson. Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993.
Pereira, Kim. August Wilson and the African American Odyssey. Urbana: U of
Illinois P, 1995.
Pettengill, Richard. "The Historical Perspective: An Interview with August
Wilson." August
Wilson: A Case Study. Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
Rich, Frank. "A Family Confronts Its History in August Wilson's Piano Lesson."
The New York
Times 17 April 1990. C-13. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 63.
456.
Richards, Lloyd. "Alternatives . . . Opposites . . . Convergences: An Interview
with Lloyd
Richards." With Richard Pettengill. August Wilson: A Case Study. Ed. Marilyn
Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
Rocha, Mark William. "American History as 'Loud Talking' in Two Trains Running."
May All
Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson. Ed. Alan Nadel.
Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993.
Shannon, Sandra G. The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson. Washington, D.C.:
Howard UP,
1995.
---. "The Ground on Which I Stand: August Wilson's Perspective on African
American
Women." May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson.
Ed. Alan Nadel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1993.
Simon, John. "A Lesson from Pianos." New York 7 May 1990. 82-83. Rpt. in
Contemporary
Literary Criticism. Vol. 63. 456-57.
Wilson, August. "An Interview with August Wilson." With Richard Pettengill.
August Wilson:
A Case Study. Ed. Marilyn Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994.
---. "Blues, History, and Dramaturgy: An Interview with Sandra Shannon."
African
American Review 27 (1994): 539-559.
---. "How to Write a Play Like August Wilson." New York Times 10 Mar. 1991.
5, 17.
---. Fences. New York: Penguin, 1985.
---. Jitney.
---. Joe Turner's Come and Gone. New York: Penguin, 1988.
---. King Hedley II.
---. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. New York: Penguin, 1985.
---. Seven Guitars.
---. The Piano Lesson. New York: Penguin, 1990.
---. Two Trains Running. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Van Gennup, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1960.
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