02013 a2200337 4500 1138210099 20250317100351.0 250312042020GB eng 9781138210097 Taylor & Francis GBP 8.99 BB 01 eng ATD thema DSG thema AN bic DSG bic ART000000 bisac DRA001000 bisac DRA001010 bisac PER010090 bisac PER011000 bisac PER011020 bisac PER011030 bisac 812.54 bisac Ladrica Menson-Furr August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone 1 Oxford Routledge 20200603 78 p "Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!" - Bynum Walker 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 its revisions and stagings in regional theatres and on Broadway, exploring its use of African American vernacular genres—blues music, folk songs, folk tales, and dance—and nineteenth-century southern post-Reconstruction history. 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. 206 206