Fences

Focuses on writers and works published since 1950. The majority of the authors surveyed are African American, but representative African and Caribbean authors are also included.

Detailed biographical information on approximately 700 authors. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work.

A short literary guide to one of this country’s greatest African American dramatists.

In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.