Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; August Wilson and the Four B's: Influences; Wilson and Fugard: Politics and Art; The Bb Burden: The Invisibility of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; August Wilson's Folk Traditions; Ghosts from ""Down There"": The Southernness of August Wilson; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: From the Local to the Mythical in August Wilson; Approaches to Africa: The Poetics of Memory and the Body in Two August Wilson Plays
Ma Rainey and the Boyz: Gender Ideology in August Wilson's Broadway CanonDeveloping His Song: August Wilson's Fences; Subtle Imposition: The Lloyd Richards-August Wilson Formula; Seven Guitars: August Wilson's Economy of Blues; Alternatives ... Opposites ... Convergences: An Interview with Lloyd Richards; The Historical Perspective: An Interview with August Wilson; Contributors