Open Access
American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Black American Experience in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Asst. Professor, P.G Dept. of English, Berhampur University, Bhanja Bihar, Ganjam, Odisha, India.
Dr. T Eswar Rao, “Black American Experience in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”, American Research Journal of
English and Literature, Vol 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 11-14.
Abstract
Literary critics often do not indulge in forecasting as they seldom come true. But Earnest Schier proved it wrong when he
proclaimed August Wilson is a better chronicler of the black experience than Alex Haley. Wilson has carved a special niche
for himself as “a compelling new voice” of the American theatre in recent time. His reputation rests mainly on his deft
chronicling of black experience which is a perennial source to supply him the necessary stuff that goes into the making of
his plays in epitomizing his honest endeavors to confront in his works the glancing manner with which the blacks look at
themselves and the majority community culture of Americans look at the blacks. He finds the gamut of black American
experience as the inexhaustible source to provide a dramatist with relevant themes to write about. Wilson juts up his
tribute to Loomis’ search by delving deep into the complexity of black experience and thereby seeks not only to help other
blacks towards developing deeper understanding and insight of themselves but also to be an agent of a voyage of self
discovery for the Americans at large - irrespective of caste, creed, color, and culture. This paper studies his work’s deep
involvement with his ‘Racial Other’
