August Wilsons legacy is that he created a voice for the
African- American community by making a play for each decade of the 20th
century. According to Rachel shteir “each play grapples with the insidious
effects pf America’s racism on the African- American community, they are at
their best not history lessons by lyric explorations of the universal
particulars of their characters.” This was a big thing because August Wilson
was really the first but the only person to compete a cycle like this and also
nobody really the first person to step up for the black community the way he
did because before they just kept quiet and did what they had to do to
survive.
Really the reason they gained power or the reason power has
a lot to do with this is because his plays were so good that they made to such
a popular place (Broadway) where very one can see and understands better of
where they come from and stat to have that similar mind set of “how we are
treating them is bad.” And maybe start spreading the message around and soon
everyone has the same mind set as Wilson did when he was making these plays. The way that “race” plays apart in this is
because for starters it is a play for and about African- Americans and second
different races can come watch the and experience the same message that
everyone get from watching some of Wilsons play.
Thank you for reading.
I agree that August Wilson made a great legacy for himself in the African-American community and in the play community. He went so far from where he began, it's very impressive.He achieved amazing feats as a play writer while overcoming a lot of adversity because of the color of his skin. His 10 cycle play is like no other because no one has ever been able accomplish something like that. Wilson's plays mainly deal with the oppression and racism that African-American had to deal with and overcome through the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteThe prompt said to analyze Troy's legacy throughout the book. I don't know if you read the prompt but your probably should have talked about Troy more instead of August Wilson. Although you're thoughts on August Wilson and his legacy he left behind were nice to read and were well analyzed.