His legacy reveals a larger message about how race, power,
and language intersect in the United states in the play Fences in the article
that I read “August Wilson; what is his legacy, really?” it said that main character
is Troy Maxson, Troy while he was young played in the Negro Leagues. But since
it was the play was set 1950’s Troy later became a garbage man while being set
at a time where there slim to none career choices that African-American have,
the plays relays a bigger message on power and class because in our society there
are equals rights for all races in Americas melting pot cities from the south
to plains of North Carolina.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
August Wilson and His legacy
August Wilson is an American playwright best known for his
unprecedented cycle of 10 plays that account for the 20th century
African-American experience. I believe august Wilson legacy is for his plays
that explores a century’s worth of African-American struggle and triumph in his
plays, beginning with the complex narrative of freedom at the turn of the century.
While he might just been a playwright his plays gave an historical insight of
the effect America’s racism on the African-American community. His plays were
in Broadway. Also giving inspiration to the modern day playwrights we have in America
today such as Suzan Lori Parks, or the elegant Lynn Nottage that seen his plays
who stared Fantastic African-American actors such as Lawrence Fishbone. You could
see the physical sense of his legacy in our artistic culture today by the theater
that was named after him.
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I agree with what you are talking about how his plays have shown people that the African American culture has over came so much to get to where they are today. You can see just how much as changed from the time of his plays to now, I mean no one back then would have thought that we would of had an African American president today. I really like how Benjamin Bailey put this, "Race is not about what one is, but rather what one counts as in a particular time and place" (Bailey). In the 50's African Americans were considered to be a good race, but times have changed and now in America all races are considered equal.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you. His cycle of 10 plays that relive the 20th century African-American experience showed us how they were treated and what they had to endure and overcome to get where they are today. His legacy will live on because he was able to put us (the audience) into an African-Americans shoes in the 20th century and really demonstrate what they had to go through.
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