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 | | She sensitively considers how Wilson uses poetry, the blues, Romare Bearden’s art, and other cultural artifacts and explores how they lead him to imagined sites of pain, resignation, healing, and renewal in the collective memory of fl America. |
 | | It is in these places of defeat and victory, Shannon demonstrates, that Wilson creates drama as he excavates, examines, and reclaims the past. |
 | | Although Wilson’s plays divert attention away from factual details and focus on the human costs of family dislocation, chronic unemployment, and cultural alienation, Shannon illustrates how fully the plays are grounded in credible historical contexts. |
| www.founders.howard.edu /hupress/huclassics/dramaticvision.htm (192 words) |
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