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Bibliography for August Wilson Journal: Spring 2019 
Compiled by Thom C. Addington 

Instructor, Richard Bland College of William and Mary 
              

Keywords 
August Wilson, Bibliography, 2016-2019 

Primary Sources 
 

Wilson, August. How I Learned What I Learned. Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 2018.  
 

Secondary Sources 
 

Abbotson, Susan C. W. “Re-Evaluating the Legacy of the Ten-Play Cycle.” Shannon, pp. 187- 
 202. 
 
Asante, Jan. “Viola Davis: Over the Fences.” Sight and Sound, vol. 27, no. 3, 2017, pp. 44-7. 
 
Baharvand, Amanolahi Peyman. “The Failure of the American Dream in August Wilson’s  
 Fences.” International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, vol. 5, 
 no. 4, 2017, pp. 69-75. 
 
Basourakos, John. “Thwarted American Dreams: The Destruction of the Black Male 
 ‘Mimetic Subject’ in August Wilson’s King Hedley II.” Explicator, vol. 74, no. 3, 2016, 
 pp. 180-83.  
 
Bell, Christopher B. “A Century Lacking Progress: The Fractured Community in Gem of the  
 Ocean and King Hedley II.” Shannon, pp. 117-27.  
 
Blatanis, Konstantinos. “Claiming the Right to a Limitless Human Body on Stage: August  
 Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (1990) and Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick 
 Creek (1998).” War on the Human: New Responses to an Ever-Present Debate, edited 
 by Theodora Tsimpouki and Konstantinos Blatanis, Cambridge Scholars, 2017,  
 pp. 257-73. 
 
Bonds, Ellen. “World War II History/history: Essential Contexts in Seven Guitars.” Shannon, 
 pp. 60-75. 
 
Brown, Susan Love. “Race, Rules, and Real Estate in August Wilson’s Radio Golf.” Capitalism  
 and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and  
 Plays, edited by Edward W. Younkins, Lexington, 2016, pp. 417-30.   
 
Butler, Isaac. “Breaking Ground.” American Theatre, vol. 33, no. 6, 2016, pp. 60-5. 



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Carpenter, Faedra Chatard. “Teaching the Cycle: Understanding August Wilson’s Fractal  
 Dramaturgy.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 169-78.  
 
Clark, Keith. “Blues Brothers: Crosscurrents in Fences and A Streetcar Named Desire.” 
 Shannon and Richards, pp. 32-44. 
 
Colbert, Soyica Diggs. “Teaching August Wilson in an American Drama Survey.” Shannon 
 and Richards, pp. 45-54.  
 
Collins-Frohlich, Jesslyn. “Reclaiming the Mother: Women, Documents and the Condition 
 of the Mother in Gem of the Ocean and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Shannon, pp. 
 101-16.  
 
Downing, Michael. “The Use of Stereotype and Archetype in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”  
 Shannon, pp. 76-87. 
 
Elam, Jr., Harry J. “Teaching Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 128-
 45.  
 
Engstrom, James and Paul K. Bryant-Jackson. “Spatial Politics and Memory: The Urban  
 Geography of August Wilson’s Radio Golf.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 89-108. 
 Euba, Femi. “African Codes and the Satiric Impulses in Wilson.” Shannon and 
 Richards, pp. 146-56. 
 
Forsgren, La Donna. “August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays.”  
 Theatre Topics, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 267-68. 
 
Green, Artisia. “Resurrecting ‘Phantom Limb[s] of the Dismembered Slave and God’: 
 Unveiling the Africanisms in Gem of the Ocean.” Shannon, pp. 142-63.  
 
Harrison, Paul Carter. “Derek Walcott/August Wilson: Homage to 20th Century Masters of  
 Word.” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, vol. 17, no. 2, 2017, pg. 30-41. 
 
Herrington, Joan and Von Washington. “Telling the Story: August Wilson’s Challenge to 
 Young Actors.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 69-78.  
 
Johann, Susan. “August Wilson.” Focus on Playwrights: Portraits and Interviews. University 
 of South Carolina Press, 2016, pp. 24-38.  
 
Jones, Douglas A. “Person, Place, and the Ordinary in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.”  
 Shannon and Richards, pp. 55-61.  
 
Li, Yanghua. “August Wilson’s Presentation of Interracial Movements in the 1960s.” English  
 Language Teaching, vol. 11, no. 6, 2018, pp. 41. 
 
McCluskey Jr., John. “Walter Mosley, August Wilson, and Mosaics of Memory.” Callaloo, vol.  
 39, no. 3, 2016, pp. 695-701. 
 
McCormick, Stacie. “August Wilson and the Anti-spectacle of Blackness and Disability in  
 Fences and Two Trains Running.” CLA Journal, vol. 61, no. 1/2, 2017, pp. 65-83.  
 



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Mirmotahari, Emad. “The Local as the Global: Reflection on Teaching World Literature.” 
 World Literature Today, vol. 90, no. 3/4, 2016, pp. 52-5. 
 
Nadel, Alan. “August Wilson, Jazz Structure, and the Historical Record.” Shannon and 
 Richards, pp. 62-8.  
 
---. The Theatre of August Wilson. Bloomsbury, 2018.  
 
Nesmith, Nathaniel G. “August Wilson and American Theater: An Interview with Frank 
 Rich.” The Black Scholar, vol. 47, no. 4, 2017, pp. 47-59. 
 
Peyman, Amanolahi Baharvand. “The Failure of the American Dream in August Wilson’s  
 Fences.” International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, vol. 5, 
 no. 4, 2017, pp. 69-75.  
 
Rutter, Emily. “Barry Beckham’s Runner Mack and the Tradition of Black Baseball 
 Literature.” MELUS, vol. 42, no. 1, 2017, pp. 74-93. 
 
Scott, Joyce Hope. “Landscapes of the 20th Century.” Shannon, pp. 15-38.   
 
Scheiber, Andrew. “The Logic of Chance: Blues and Policy in August Wilson’s Two Trains  
 Running.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 79-88.  
 
Seda, Owen. “Epiphany and the ‘Drama of Souls.’” Shannon, pp. 164-74.  
 
Shannon, Sandra G. “A Transplant That Did Not Take: August Wilson’s Views on the Great  
 Migration.” African American Review, vol. 50, no. 4, 2017, pp. 979-86. 
 
---. and Sandra L. Richards, editors. Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson.  
 Modern Language Association, 2016.  
 
---. August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays. McFarland, 2016.  
 
---. “August Wilson (1945-2005).” Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama, edited by  
 David Palmer, Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 141-52. 
 
---. “Lesson Plans for the Millennial Student: An Interdisciplinary Course Inspired by the 
 Plays of August Wilson.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 109-27. 
 
Smith, Kyle. “August Wilson’s Cycle of Bloodshed.” New Criterion, vol. 35, no. 7, 2017, pp.  
 37-40.  
 
Rapoo, Connie. “Conjuring Africa in August Wilson’s Plays.” Shannon, pp. 175-86.  
 
Richards, Sandra. “Materials.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 3-9. 
 
---. “‘You on an Adventure’: Teaching August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.” Shannon and  
 Richards, pp. 157-68.  
 
Saddler, Sarah and Paul Bryant-Jackson. “Two Trains Running: Bridging Diana Taylor’s ‘Rift’  
 and Narrating Manning Marable’s ‘Living History.’” Shannon, pp. 49-59.  
 



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Smith, Anna Deavere. “Ringside? Let’s Take Down the Ropes.” American Theatre, vol. 34, no.  
 7, 2017, pp. 38-46. 
 
Temple, Christel N. “Africana Literature as Social Science: Applying the Demographic 
 Literary Standard (DLS) to the Works of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks. 
 Africana Theory, Policy, and Leadership, edited by James L. Conyers, Jr., Transaction 
 Press, 2016, pp. 1-30.  
 
Temple, Riley Keene. Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed: Journeys to Freedom in August  
 Wilson’s Ten Plays of Twentieth-Century Black America. Cascade Books, 2017. 
 
Thompson, Ayanna. “Comparing Wilson with Shakespeare: Teaching the Politics and 
 Practices of Race in Performance.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 24-31. 
 
Tian, Junwu and Na Li. “Symbols and Functions of Two Kinds of Ghosts in August Wilson’s  
 The Piano Lesson.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews,  
 vol. 31, no. 4, 2018, pp. 272-5. 
 
Wardi, Anissa Janine. “August Wilson’s Bioregional Perspective.” Callaloo, vol. 39, no. 3,  
 2016, pp. 680-94.  
 
Williams, Dana A. “Teaching Students How to Examine the Role of Women in August 
 Wilson’s Plays.” Shannon and Richards, pp. 179-89.  
 
Williams-Forson, Psyche. “‘He Gonna Give Me My Ham’: The Use of Food as a Symbol for  
 Social Justice.” Shannon, pp. 128-41. 
 
Wooden, Isaiah. “Gem of the Ocean’s Fugitive Moments.” Shannon, pp. 88-100.  
 
Zeff, Jacqueline. “‘A Big Bend There, A Tree by the Shore’: Situated Identity in The Janitor.”  
 Shannon, 39-48.  
 
Zhang, Hongmei. “August Wilson’s otherness in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” Theory and  
 Practice in Language Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016, pp. 171-76. 

Author Bio 

Thom C. Addington is Instructor of English at Richard Bland College of 
William and Mary.  He is a graduate of Howard University. 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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