Aunt Ester's Children Redeemed

by Riley Keene Temple

Book Overview

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths are all embodied in one character, Aunt Ester. She is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498237827
• ISBN13: 9781498237826
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"