scholarly journals Celebrating August Wilson's Legacy in Smoketown

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Old South ◽  
August Wilson ◽  
American Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Address ◽  
Subsequent Incorporation

In his opening address to attendees of the August Wilson Colloquium, Mark Whitaker—from his perspective as author of Smoketown—discusses the research he conducted and the subsequent incorporation of the topic of August Wilson into his book.  Beginning with the assertion that that Wilson’s family story "fits the larger pattern of migrants from the northern part of the Old South who arrived in Pittsburgh with a respect for literacy and religious discipline," Whitaker contrasts the history of  black Pittsburgh as reported in the pages of The Pittsburgh Courier with the metaphorical representations in Wilson's American Century Cycle. 

A History of the Old South

1950 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Leonard W. Labaree ◽  
Clement Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Old South ◽  
History Of

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Sandra G. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
August Wilson ◽  
Sudden Loss ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Time, timing, and timelessness all converge in Harry J. Elam's The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (2004), a major addition to Wilson studies at this profound juncture in the history of American theatre. First, Elam's study offers a sweeping retrospective of Wilson's blending of past and present time in his recently completed cycle of plays. Yet it is the timing of the book's release that affords it an added advantage. Though published in 2004, The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson can easily be regarded as a most fitting tribute to one of the great voices of the American stage. As the nation—indeed the world—mourns the sudden loss of August Wilson, current and future generations of scholars, students, educators, theatre practitioners, and lovers of theatre may find comfort in knowing that the foundation has already been laid for serious and sustained study of his phenomenal legacy and far-reaching influence. Elam's work adds a vital cornerstone to that foundation.

NEWCOMB COLLEGE POTTERY, ARTS AND CRAFTS, AND THE NEW SOUTH

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Meghan Freeman
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Arts And Crafts Movement ◽  
Old South ◽  
Women's College ◽  
Educational Experiment ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of

In the history of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, New Orleans's Newcomb College Pottery (founded in 1894) is often singled out as distinctive by virtue of its genesis as an experimental educational venture, all the more remarkable for emerging out of a small women's college located in the Deep South. Scholarship on NCP frequently rehearses the regionalist character of its diverse handicrafts and its adherence to the central tenets of Arts and Crafts. This article explores how Newcomb College Pottery was neither so strictly regionalist nor so pure an embodiment of the Arts and Crafts spirit as is often averred. Situating Newcomb College Pottery within contemporary cultural debates concerning the formation of a “New South,” I demonstrate how the architects and advocates of Newcomb, inspired by the 1884 Cotton Centennial, sought to craft a largely aspirational identity that marketed NCP as a model industry that heralded commercial and cultural development in the region. It was only later, I argue, as the Pottery developed from an educational experiment into a widely known and respected handicraft enterprise, that it embraced the anti-industrial rhetoric that animated the broader Arts and Crafts movement and adopted the more sentimental form of regionalism that traded on romantic evocations of the Old South, in repudiation of the socially and economically progressive energies that gave it birth.

Alaska's first American century: the view ahead

Polar Record ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (88) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Terris Moore
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
American Century ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Political Alignment ◽  
Chinese Empire

Alaska and Canada have recently been celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of those separate events, both occurring in 1867, which gave birth to their modern political alignment.Because of its geographical position, Alaska's history, more than that of any other state of the union, developed in response to international events. Its original Russian occupation, and its acquisition by the United States a century ago, emerge from the history of eastern Siberia, and are related to events in the region of the river Amur, once a part of the ancient Chinese empire. Its purchase also carried with it a boundary dispute merging Alaska's history with that of western Canada.

scholarly journals Unlocked Minds: August Wilson’s Suspects, Ex-Cons, or Soon-to-Be Convicted Characters in his American Century Cycle

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skyler Easton Saunders
Keyword(s):  
August Wilson ◽  
American Century ◽  
Chain Gangs ◽  
The Many

This essay is a meditation on the significant number of carceral references made by the late Mr. August Wilson in his American Century Cycle. It sets out to delineate the various instances where Mr. Wilson mentions the many associated pains, both mental and corporal, that crop up in lives of his characters, related to prisons, jail, work farms, chain gangs and other forms of detainment and imprisonment.

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