Wilson, August - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Criticism

Barnes, Clive. "'Trains' Doesn't Run." New York Post (14 April 1992): 138.

Mixed assessment of Two Trains Running.

Bergesen, Eric, and William W. Demastes. "The Limits of African-American Political Realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." In Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition, edited by William W. Demastes, pp. 218-34. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Contrasts Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey as examples of two divergent styles of approaching African-American subjects.

Birdwell, Christine. "Death as a Fastball on the Outside Corner: Fences' Troy Maxson and the American Dream." Aethlon VII (Fall 1990): 87-96.

Surveys Fences, illustrating Wilson's use of baseball as subject, symbol, and metaphor in the...

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