The Shaman's Apprentice: Ecstasy and Economy in Wilson's Joe Turner.(August Wilson and the African American Odyssey)(Critical Essay)
From: African American Review
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Date: 9/22/2001
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Author: Keller, James R.
In his book August Wilson and the African American Odyssey, Kim Pereira briefly engages the theories of the renowned anthropologist Mircea Eliade in order to understand the events and characters of Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone (82-83). Recognizing that the drama includes a search for self-actualization by a group of African Americans migrating north in the second decade of the twentieth century, Pereira asserts that it is only through the acceptance of their dual cultural ...
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