August Wilson also known as a fame playwright, is best known for his 10 plays that chronicle the 20th century for many African- Americans in history. Many of Wilson’s stories and plays have had a great impact on American Literature, Theatre, and African American culture. Playwright August Wilson was born as Frederick August Kittel, on August 27, 1945 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up, Wilson endure many of the scenarios that he would later describe the characters in his works to be dealing with and over coming. When Wilson began his writing career he was sure that he not only bring awareness of issues in African-American households, but also the affect those issues bought among the children as well. Wilson stated in keynote address in …show more content…
Wilson returns to the blues which is presented as an explicit controlling metaphor. Being one of Wilson's most pessimistic plays, Seven Guitars shows the black a man caught in white economic oppression and fails to see his music as anything more than a means to make ends meet. As in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the musicians who occupy this play have been taken advantage of and cheated by the white controlled music business. Despite the fact that Floyd has a hit song, he is still dependent on a white agent who eventually cheats him out of his money. This play had really proven to critics the talent that Wilson was capable of. In this play, one of Wilson’s main focuses was on attacks of the cultural imperialist critics who were antagonistic to a diversified theater because they saw lowering of standards if they done so. Fitzgeral stated, “This art was designed to nurture the spirit, to celebrate black life, and to pass on strategies for survival in a hostile and antagonistic environment” (15). In each one of Wilson’s work he strived to get specific points across, so that less people would find themselves in certain