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Rescuing the Tragic Bully in August Wilson’s Fences
Ist Teil von
The Southern review (Baton Rouge), 2014-09, Vol.50 (4), p.648-674
Ort / Verlag
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Weber comments on August Wilson's Fences, the third entry in what would become his ten-play cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century. Gabriel Maxson attempts to instruct Saint Peter to open the gates of heaven and receive the soul of his recently deceased older brother Troy, the play's self-absorbed bully of a protagonist. By having a character summon a divine force to rescue the deceased protagonist--whether that force is truly Christian in nature or pagan and African as numerous Wilson scholars have contended--the playwright seems to break with Aristotelian tradition, which would normally oblige the protagonist to endure, unhappily ever after, the consequences of his own hubristic error.