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_q(paperback)
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050 _aPS3573.I45677
_bW55 2004
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100 1 _aMenson-Furr, Ladrica C.,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aAugust Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone /
_cLadrica Menson-Furr.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2004
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aFourth wall ;
_v22
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Joe Turner's Come and Gone from Memphis, Tennessee to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania -- August Wilson-The African American Shakespeare -- Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Mr. Wilson's "Signature Play" and Favorite Play -- Themes and the African American Vernacular Tradition -- Production History and Critical Reception -- Conclusion, August Wilson's Ode to South.
520 _a"August Wilson's considered Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh Cycle. It is a drama that truly examines the roots, crossroads and intersections of African, American, and African American culture. Its characters and choral griots interweave the intricate tropes of migration from the south to the north, the effects of slavery, black feminism and masculinity, and the Wilson's theme of finding one's 'song' or identity. This book gives readers an overview of the work from its inception on through its revisions and stagings in regional theatres and Broadway, exploring its use of African American vernacular genres - blues music, folk songs, folk tales, and dance - and 19th Century Southern post-Reconstruction history. Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama, blues drama, American drama, great migration drama, and the finest example of Wilson's gift for re-locating the African American experience in urban southern cities as the beginning and not the end of the African American experience"--
600 1 0 _aWilson, August.
_tJoe Turner's come and gone.
_917120
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature.
_917121
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