August Wilson
Hunter W. Jeffery, & White J. Timothy. "Contemporary Literary Criticism". Introduction to August Wilson. Volume 118 (1999): 374-375August Wilson a son to a white father (Fredrick August Kittle) a was born in 1945, He grew up in a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania ghetto called the Hill. Wilison was raised by his mother who worked as a janitor to support her six children. Willison fustrated by the continues racism he experienced in several schools in were he gained pride in his heritage Wilson being a nith grade drop out futhered his education from a local library in a collection of books marked "Negro" he discovered works of Harlem Renaissance and other African American writers such as Ralph Ellison Langston Huges and Arna Buntemps. Willson realized that African Americans could be successful without compromising their traditions. Matuz Roger. "Contemporary Literary Criticsm". August Wilson. Vol 63 (1991): 181-185
The father-son and husband-wife relationships cross unique barriers. The main character, Troy Maxson is a garbage collector who has taken great price in keeping his family together and providing for them. The baseball metaphor is used in relation to death throughout the play. Allen Wallup a review from 1998 fenced in by a life time of recentment. Fences is unique to the plight of African Americans. Wilsons first professional break through occurred in 1978 in St Paul Minnesota it was then when he recognized poetic qualities in the language of his hometown and through this he generated some of his best play writes such as "Ma Rainey Black Bottom" (drama) 1984, " Fences" (drama) 1985, "Joe Tuners Come and Gone" (drama) 1986,"The Piano Lesson" (drama) 1987, "Two Trains Running (drama) 1990, and many more. icult for Wilson to find his own style of writeing because he was heavily influenced by other styles but after he was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement in 1968 Wilson co founded Black Horizon on the Hill ( which was a community theather aimed at raising black conpicousness in the area) The play house became the forum of his first drama in which he developed his own style and voice. Troy also wrestles with the idea of death and claims that he sees death as nothing but a fastball, something he can handle. This story can be related a lot to today's society. There are similar fences between Troy and his loved ones, in one way of another he has kept them separated from a part of himself. Looking at the setting in this story , an old little house with a run down porch and few steps represent the struggle that many afrocan Americans face even in today's conventional society. A once incarcerated black man with very little education being but in a situation where he has to provide the nessacities of life for his family in order to keep his ego in tack even if it means little happiness for himself, Although with this little happiness comes infadelitie and drunkenness that even in today is considered the normal for the black man under the stated circumstances above.
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