August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

Introduction - Dana A. Williams * Black Aesthetics as Theory, Art, and Ideology * The Development of African-American Dramatic Theory: W.E.B. DuBois to August Wilson - Hand to Hand! - Mikell Pinkney * Rita Dove's Mother Love: Revising the Black Aesthetic through the Lens of Western Discourse - Tracey L. Walters * The Ifa Paradigm: Reading the Spirit in Tina McElroy Ansa's Baby of the Family - Georgene Bess Montgomery * Just 'Cause (or Just Cause): On August Wilson's Case for a Black Theater - by John V. White * Black Aesthetics and Interdisciplinary Black Arts * "Keeping It Real": August Wilson and Hip Hop - Harry J. Elam, Jr. * Giving Voice and Vent to African American Culture: August Wilson's Black Aesthetics and Katherine Dunham's Fight for Cultural Ownership in Mambo - Dorothea Fischer-Hornung * The Mumia Project: Theatre Activism at Howard University - Sybil J. Roberts * August Wilson's Plays and Black Aesthetics * Phantom Limbs Dancing Juba Rites in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson - Reggie Young * Speaking of Voice and August Wilson's Women - Tara T. Green * Using Black Rage to Elucidate African and African-American Identity in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone - C. Patrick Tyndall * Current, Unpublished Interviews That Speak to Aesthetic Issues Raised in "The Ground on Which I Stand" * The Ground on Which He Stands: Charles S. Dutton on August Wilson - Yolanda Williams Page * Interview with Wilson conducted by Sandra Shannon * A Liberating Prayer: A Lovesong for Mumia - Sybil J. Roberts * Afterword - Sandra G. Shannon