THE TRAUMA OF RE-LOCATION IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE AMERICAN CENTURY CYCLE
THE TRAUMA OF RE-LOCATION IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE AMERICAN CENTURY CYCLE

Summary/Abstract: Spanning the twentieth century, August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle captures the lives of its characters in various decades of the century. The struggles of the African American community of the Hill District in Pittsburgh, where the author was born, are shown in the plays belonging to the Cycle. Analysis of plays such as Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, and Fences, will focus on demonstrating how re-location played an important role in the lives of the African American community from the first generations of Africans brought over into slavery to the new generations of free African Americans.

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