In 1987, August Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his play Fences. Examine this play along with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and Two Trains Running.
Front Cover.
Copyright Page.
1: Chapters.
2: Wilson, August.
3: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
4: Sturdyvant.
5: Irvin.
6: Cutler.
7: Toledo.
8: Slow Drag.
9: Ma Rainey.
10: The Policeman.
11: Dussie Mae.
12: Sylvester.
13: The Marketability of Black Culture.
14: The Play as Greek Tragedy.
15: Ma’s and Levee’s Black and White Loyalties.
16: The Play as Blues Composition.
17: The Collision of Blues and Swing.
18: Ma Rainey’s Sexuality.
19: Troy Maxson.
20: Jim Bono.
21: Rose.
22: Lyons.
23: Gabriel.
24: Cory.
25: Raynell.
26: Fences.
27: Scenes as Innings.
28: The Spectre of Death.
29: Pre and Post-War Athletics.
30: Race Relations in the 1950s.
31: The Strength of Troy.
32: The Play as Metacomedy.
33: The Instructive Potential of Troy’s Stories.
34: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
35: Seth Holly.
36: Bertha Holly.
37: Bynum Walker.
38: Rutherford Selig.
39: Zonia Loomis.
40: Mattie Campbell.
41: Reuben Mercer.
42: Molly Cunningham.
43: Martha Pentecost.
44: Joe Turner.
45: Jeremy Furlow.
46: Southern Personalities in the Play.
47: Bertha’s and Bynum’s Shamanism.
48: Africanizing the Audience.
49: Afro-Baptist and Biblical Sources for Bynum’s Conversion Narrative.
50: Shiny Man as Surrogate God.
51: The Cultural and Etymological Origins of the Juba.
52: Two Trains Running.
53: Memphis.
54: Wolf.
55: Risa.
56: Sterling.
57: Hambone.
58: West.
59: Aunt Ester.
60: Chance and the Occult.
61: Risa and Black Female Self-Hatred.
62: Overhearing Holloway.
63: The Legacy of Malcolm X.
64: The Symbolic Death of the Civil Rights Movement.
