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Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson Holly Ann Genova Reeling from the loss ofThe award winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like