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Violence is not the Answer:

العنوان بلغة أخرى: Searching for a path to Freedom in Amiri Baraka’s the Slave and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
المصدر: مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية
الناشر: جامعة المنيا - كلية الآداب
المؤلف الرئيسي: Abdel-Kader, Marwa Ramadan (Author)
المجلد/العدد: ع79, مج2
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: مصر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2014
الشهر: يوليو
الصفحات: 223 - 289
ISSN: 1687-2630
رقم MD: 974620
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: HumanIndex, AraBase
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المستخلص: The present paper is a comparative thematic study examining liberation strategies in Amiri Baraka's The Slave (1964) and; August Wilson’s Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). Both plays refute the myth of America as a symbol of democracy and freedom, a land of egalitarian principles and equal opportunities for everyone, focusing specifically on the social and spiritual alienation of African Americans as a minority in the American society. Reversing the familiar metaphor of the Amen can melting pot, they suggest that America is more precisely a cultural stew in which African 'Americans are the leftovers,” to use Jay Plum’s words (562): The ruling one gets from both works is that of a black man's quest for freedom in an alien racially-charged world that condemns him' to live a bleak life. Despite' these affinities; the liberation strategies :adopted .in these two plays; are' completely different While The Slave suggests that violence is an indispensable, tool- in the fight for freedom Joe Turner’s come and ; Gone. .focuses-, more, on the idea of peaceful struggle, inner freedom and spiritual liberation. The study shows that violence -may be an inevitable aftermath of oppression, but hardly provides a valid path to real freedom.

ISSN: 1687-2630