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What the Wine-sellers Buy - Plus Three (Paperback)
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What the Wine-sellers Buy - Plus Three (Paperback)
Series: African American Life Series
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A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright,
screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature
from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity
and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in
relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the
struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle
class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this
question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be
not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of
being in the world. The four Milner plays collected here -
Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban
Transition - are characterized by their attention to African
American social and psychological culture. Checkmates (1990)
explores the relationships of two Black couples who are generations
apart in age and attitudes - one new at the games and realities of
love, the other experienced. What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974), a
coming-of-age tale set on Detroit streets in the 1950s, looks at
the conflict between the lure of the streets and a mother's
teachings. The highly innovative Jazz-Set is Milner's tribute to
jazz - a play that works like a jazz composition, where the
musicians and music are one and characters' life experiences and
memories are ""played"" as music. Urban Transition (1995) picks up
on themes introduced in What the Wine-Sellers Buy to examine how
the drug subculture has made its way into current mainstream
culture. Ron Milner is one of America's most prolific and foremost
playwrights. His plays have become required texts in many of the
emerging repertory theaters of the Black and progressive theater
communities. Four Plays will be of interest to students of the
theater, theater scholars, and those interested in African American
and American literature.
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