Tomorrow Never Comes
"Songs of Cultural Identity in August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4553965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary L Bogumil (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 463 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3209070 |
| OpenAlex | W2331603862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The subject of displacement in all its psychological vicissitudes is dramatized in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, a play in which the African American residents of a boarding house in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1911 attempt to rediscover, repossess, and redefine themselves historically and socially as free citizens. These children of newly freed slaves, like others who came before them, attempt to make a place for themselves in this polyethnic, and certainly hostile, environment
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Humanities · Identity (music · Literature · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |