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Ladrica Menson-Furr - August Wilson´s Joe Turner´s Come and Gone - 9781138210097 - V9781138210097
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August Wilson´s Joe Turner´s Come and Gone

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Description for August Wilson´s Joe Turner´s Come and Gone Paperback. Series: The Fourth Wall. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 172 x 119. .

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August Wilson 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 Wilson's theme of finding one's "song" or identity. This book gives readers an overview of the work from its inception on through ... Read more

Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama, a blues drama, an American drama, a Great Migration drama, and the finest example of Wilson's gift for relocating the African American experience in urban southern cities at the beginning and not the end of the African American experience.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Series
The Fourth Wall
Condition
New
Number of Pages
78
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138210097
SKU
V9781138210097
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ladrica Menson-Furr
Ladrica Menson-Furr is Director of African and African American Studies and Associate Professor of African American Literature at the University of Memphis. She is the author of August Wilson’s Fences (2008) and several articles on the works of August Wilson, Zora Neal Hurston, and Pearl Cleage.

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