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An example of a scholarly, literary criticism:
Shannon, Sandra G. “A Transplant That Did Not Take: August Wilson’s Views on the Great Migration.” African American Review, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter 2017, pp. 979–986. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=128553283&site=eds-live.
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SCHOLARLY WORKS TO CONSIDER
Brewer, Gaylord. "Holy and Unholy Ghosts: The Legacy of the Father in the Plays of August Wilson." Drama Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 31, Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420082399/LitRC?u=mlin_m_cambsch&sid=LitRC&xid=fe93d6df. Accessed 30 Nov. 2018. Originally published in Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature, edited by Eva Paulino Bueno, et al., Lexington Books, 2000, pp. 120-139.
Nadel, Alan. August Wilson : Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle. University Of Iowa Press, 2010. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=373110&site=eds-live.
Wattley, Ama S. “AUGUST WILSON'S VISIBLY SCARRED CHARACTERS.” CLA Journal, vol. 54, no. 2, 2010, pp. 121–138. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44325783.
Weber, Myles. “August Wilson Grounded.” New England Review (1990-), vol. 24, no. 4, 2003, pp. 198–203. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40244337.
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