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Part IV - Critical and Comparative Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2025

Edited by
Khalid Y. Long  and
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Khalid Y. Long
Affiliation:
Howard University, Washington DC
Isaiah Matthew Wooden
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
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August Wilson in Context , pp. 303 - 376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Chireau, Yvonne P., Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Cooperman, Robert, “Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: An Interview with David Henry Hwang,” Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama, edited by Maufort, Marc (New York: Peter Lang, 1995).Google Scholar
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Bloom, Steven F., “The Lingering (Comic?) Legacy of Eugene O’Neill,” The Eugene O’Neill Review 20, nos. 1 and 2 (1996): 139–46.Google Scholar
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Elam, Harry J. Jr., The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).Google Scholar
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Glissant, Édouard, Poetics of Relation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Elam, Harry J., Jr., The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).Google Scholar
Mary, C. Hartig and Bryer, Jackson, eds., Conversations with August Wilson (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2006).Google Scholar
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