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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction; Special Issue on August Wilson
  2. Cynthia L. Caywood, Marilyn Elkins, Carlton Floyd
  3. pp. ix-xv
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0057
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Essays

  1. Putting Black Culture on Stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
  2. Patricia M. Gantt
  3. pp. 1-25
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0046
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  1. Framing African American Cultural Identity: The Bookends Plays in August Wilson's 10-Play Cycle
  2. Sandra G. Shannon
  3. pp. 26-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0048
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  1. Some Losses Remain with Us: Impossible Mourning and the Prevalence of Ritual in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
  2. Jermaine Singleton
  3. pp. 40-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0050
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  1. "…if you live long enough the boat will turn around": The Birth and Death of Community in Three Plays by August Wilson
  2. Richard Noggle
  3. pp. 58-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0052
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  1. "She Make You Right with Yourself": Aunt Ester, Masculine Loss and Cultural Redemption in August Wilson's Cycle Plays
  2. Cynthia L. Caywood, Carlton Floyd
  3. pp. 74-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0054
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  1. "Their baggage a long line of separation and dispersement": Haunting and Trans-generational Trauma in Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  2. Sinikka Grant
  3. pp. 96-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0056
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  1. The Shattered Mirror: What August Wilson Means and Willed to Mean
  2. Sergei Burbank
  3. pp. 117-129
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0045
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Review Essays

  1. Print Culture Studies and Technological Determinism
  2. Rodney Mader
  3. pp. 131-140
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0047
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  1. Receiving Austen and Scott
  2. James Rovira
  3. pp. 141-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0049
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Book Reviews

  1. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940 (review)
  2. Andrew Sargent
  3. pp. 152-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0051
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  1. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (review)
  2. Hyoejin Yoon
  3. pp. 155-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0053
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Appendix

  1. Books Received
  3. pp. 159-160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0055
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  1. College Literature Referees
  3. pp. 161-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0058
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