Tag Archives: William Faulkner
Faulkner’s Harlem Renaissance
November 20, 2013 This past week I was teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing. I’d never assigned them before, but they couldn’t have been better — for my “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner” class. How else to contextualize Light in August? Not … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, African-American music, jazz
Tagged Aaron Douglas, Aime Césaire, August Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Light in August, Matisse, Picasso, Romare Bearden, Tender is the Night, The Black Atlantic, University of Mississippi, William Faulkner
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Suzan-Lori Parks, Diane Paulus, Deidre Murray : Three Women Collaborating
October 9, 2014 It won the 2012 Tony for the best musical revival, but the New York Times didn’t much like it, missing Gershwin’s full operatic scores in this “thinned-out” and “heavily-cut” version. Having no deep connection to the original, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, African-American music, collaboration, Contemporary literature, jazz
Tagged Another Country, Bill Kirchner, Billy Strayhorn, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Getting Mother's Body, Gil Evans, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nelson Riddle, Paul Simon, Porgy and Bess, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Capeman, The Red Letter Plays, William Faulkner
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