Tag Archives: August Wilson

Symbolism of “Fences” by August Wilson

In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, there are numerous symbols including baseball, Gabriel’s trumpet, Raynell’s garden, and countless others. One of the key textual symbols in the play is the fence that Troy and his son, Cory, build. The fence serves as a structural device due to the fact that the character’s lives transform […]

How to Use the SAILS Library Network Virtual Catalog

If you live southeastern Massachusetts, you probably have a library in your hometown connected to the SAILS Library Network system, and accordingly, can use their website to check your account, look up resources, and request inter-library loans. What’s even better: you can use the SAILS Library Network’s Virtual Catalog to connect to resources all over […]

The “Black Aesthetic” – Hoyt W. Fuller and Trey Ellis

A comparison of the writings of Hoyt W. Fuller and Trey Ellis on the concept of “Black Aesthetics” provides the reader with expertise in the development that ultimately sought the cause of the upward mobility of the black race. Fullon’s article “Versus Aesthetic Black” was the first to establish what this concept was, this “Black […]