Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed (eBook)

Journeys to Freedom in August Wilson’s Ten Plays of Twentieth-Century Black America

Riley K. Temple (Autor)

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2017
150 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4982-3781-9 (ISBN)

Infos

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is as old as the number of years blacks have been on these shores. All of the characters in the ten-play cycle are her children. Their search is through circumstance and adventure, certainly. This author demonstrates how Wilson uses language--poetry, the blues--to bring each play's characters to a point of wholeness, redemption, and freedom, not from history, but ennobled and strengthened by it. Wilson employs fundamental theological doctrines to exhort Aunt Ester's children to remember by whom and how they were freed and made whole.

Autor

Riley Keene Temple is an avid American arts advocate and supporter, and has been honored for his leadership of arts organizations. He is a telecommunications attorney in Washington DC, where his Board memberships include the National Archives Foundation and the Trust for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds a Masters degree, cum laude, of Theological Studies from the Virginia Theological Seminary. He has written frequently on theology and the creative arts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2017
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: African American • American • Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed • Christianity • Christian theology • History • History of Religion • Literary criticism • Literature: history and criticism • Riley K. Temple • Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-4982-3781-9 / 1498237819
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-3781-9 / 9781498237819